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New York Expands Eligibility for Kin Who Want to Foster Children [chronicleofsocialchange.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) · 11/15/196:54 AM

By Rachel Nielsen, The Chronicle of Social Change, November 14, 2019 When caseworkers remove children from their homes and place them into foster care, it can be jarring and traumatic. A new law in New York aims to ease the transition by enabling a wider circle of family members and even non-relatives to become the kids’ foster parents. That law, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed in late October, broadens the definition of relatives. Previously, only certain blood relatives of a parent of a...

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