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Northumberland County Children and Youth lays out foster-care vision, seeks 20 new foster families
Summary
Northumberland County Children and Youth presented a new vision and recruitment goals Jan. 6, reporting 122 children in foster care, 23 foster homes and 35 kinship homes and a plan to recruit about 20 families this year to keep placements closer to home.
Cleveland Way, administrator for Northumberland County Children and Youth, and Jennifer Carpenter, supervisor for the county’s foster and kinship program, presented the agency’s new vision to the county commissioners on Jan. 6 and said they plan to expand local foster-care capacity.
Way described the agency’s mission as building ‘‘a compassionate and resilient community where every child is safe, supported, and empowered,’’ and said the department produced a short video to illustrate foster-care work in the county. "A community is what raises a child," Way said,…
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