New York City Says It’s A Sign Of Progress That Fewer Foster Kids Return Home [chronicleofsocialchange.org]

Alicia Doktor 3/20/184:00 AM

The portion of youth in foster care who are eventually reunited with their biological families has been plummeting in New York City, according to a Chronicle of Social Change review of data from the city’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS).

The city reunified 68 percent of the children who exited foster care in 2010. By 2016, 53 percent of exiting youth went back to their parents. But while the idea of fewer children returning home sounds worrisome, ACS officials say it’s due to improved efforts to keep families together in the first place, before a child gets removed due to child abuse or neglect allegations made against their parents.

Family reunification is a top priority for child welfare advocates. Policymakers and experts mostly agree that the sooner foster children can be safely returned to their original families, the better.

[For more on this story by Michael Fitzgerald, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...-sign-progress/30239]

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