In what's been hailed as a "critical milestone," the state of Michigan has reached a settlement with a child advocacy group that filed suit seeking foster care reform on behalf of the state's 19,000 foster children.

"As part of the settlement... the Michigan Department of Human Services would add as many as 700 children's services employees in the next five years, require no more than 15 cases per foster care and adoption worker and hire 40 specialists to license about 7,000 foster homes with relatives who provide for the children."

The settlement also requires the state to employ 200 "permanency specialists," whose sole focus will be finding adoptive homes for eligible foster children. Source: Detroit News

Labels: foster_care, adoptive_families, reform

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