Looking Forward To 2016: Georgia’s Foster Care System
In this Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015 photo, Dennis Volz-Benoit, center, holds the hand of his autistic son Tyler as Eric Volz-Benoit pushes the wheelchair of son Zachary, born with cerebral palsy, as the family and private-care nurse walk at the Quabbin Reservoir observation tower in Ware, Mass. The men are the legal guardians and foster-to-adopt parents of Tyler, Ryan and three other special-needs children. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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This week, we are asking reporters at WABE what is on the editorial radar for 2016.
Reporter Michell Eloy says she will continue following Georgia’s foster care system.
“One of the big issues that the Division of Family and Children’s Services has been struggling with is a shortage of foster care placements and homes to place children in light of a growing number of foster children that are being brought into care,” Eloy says.
“So the Division has really been grappling with kind of a crisis level in terms of what they do with these kids when they’re brought into their care. And that’s something I hope to continue covering, and looking at different ways that they’re trying to recruit people – get them to go through these trainings to be foster parents and issues sort of surrounding that.”
We will post more interviews with WABE news staffers in the coming days to learn about the issues they plan to follow in the coming year.
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