Missouri Is Increasing Positive Outcomes For Older Foster Kids

(MISSOURINET)- Back in 2020, four Missouri Department of Social Services workers won a state government challenge by proposing a plan to help prepare older foster children in southeast Missouri for the real world. That plan has been put into action and has expanded statewide. Ann Bockman helped to get the effort off the ground…

Missouri youth can remain in foster care until the age of 21. About 450 Missouri foster kids age out of the system each year.