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Class Action Brings Justice and Healing to Foster Children in Kansas
Class Actions, Children's Rights Teddy Basham-Witherington Class Actions, Children's Rights Teddy Basham-Witherington

Class Action Brings Justice and Healing to Foster Children in Kansas

I remember talking to children and families early in our work in Kansas and being shocked by the stories they told. How children were regularly dropped off at a new foster home night after night without being offered so much as a warm meal or a shower before being picked up the next morning. They would then spend their day in a case worker’s office with nothing to do. Some children cycled through upwards of ninety placements due to this horrifying practice. This is an experience that we know devastates youth emotionally and psychologically, and interferes with child brain development. It was impossible for me to fathom how we could be doing that to any child.

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