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Job & Family Services reports high caseloads and rising foster-care costs to commissioners
Summary
Randall L. Galbraith, director of Hancock County Job & Family Services, told commissioners March 17 that the number of children in county custody is high, placement costs are rising, treatment foster-care grant dollars have been exhausted and the county is projecting multimillion-dollar purchased-care costs.
Randall L. Galbraith, Esq., director of Hancock County Job & Family Services, updated the Board of Commissioners March 17 on placements, reimbursements and cost projections, saying the number of children in care is high and that placement costs continue to increase.
Galbraith presented a placements summary showing a YTD foster care placement figure of $368,034.33 and a net balance of $286,425.93 after known credits and reimbursements recorded to that date. The written material provided to the board lists 91 children…
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