Leader of Missouri’s Foster Care System Calls Lack of Foster Homes a Crisis
August 31, 2022 5:57AM CDT
(MISSOURINET) – Nearly 14-thousand Missouri children are in a foster home. Darrell Missey, the director of Missouri’s Children’s Division, which runs the foster care system, says the state does not have enough foster homes. He calls it a crisis…
Missey wants to use a prevention-based model that is designed to reduce the number of kids coming into the state’s care.