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Meeting participant urges foster care system to ask youth what they want
Summary
A meeting participant said foster youth are often not consulted about their case plans and urged officials to ask youth what they want and need, offering concrete questions staff might use.
A meeting participant urged officials to change how case planning happens, saying foster youth are too often told what will happen without being asked for their input. The participant called for caseworkers and officials to directly ask young people, "What is it that you want? What do you think you need? How can I help you?"
The roundtable featured several short testimonies and closed with participants asking to join future planning. Officials framed the meeting as a listening session and invited the youth to return to continue the conversation.
