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Bill would let college students in foster care keep their previous placements for breaks
Summary
Delegate Mike Griffith asked the committee to back HB 8-09 to allow foster youth who go to college or vocational training to return to their prior out-of-home placement for scheduled breaks without losing that placement.
Delegate Mike Griffith presented House Bill 8-09, proposing an exemption to placement caps so that young people who leave foster placements to attend higher education or vocational training can return to the same out-of-home placement during scheduled breaks.
"When I go away to school that bed gets filled. So therefore when I come back from college I'm placed in a random setting," Griffith said, describing the bill as intended to avoid forcing foster youth to choose between…
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