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Catherine Candisky

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Foster care crisis forcing kids to sleep in offices (Part 3)

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By Catherine Candisky
| Urbana Daily Citizen Verified
By Catherine Candisky Editor’s Note: This story is one in a series of three about the foster care crisis in Ohio. “It’s sad to me that we’re accepting this as the new normal, that it’s fine for kids to have to sit in a government agency until we find some placement whether appropriate or not for this kid.” Ohio is among nine states where child-welfare services are administered by counties and overseen by the state.
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Foster care crisis forcing kids to sleep in offices (Part 2)

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By Catherine Candisky
| Urbana Daily Citizen Verified
By Catherine Candisky Editor’s Note: This story is one in a series of three about the foster care crisis in Ohio. Last spring, a teen spent a month in Cleveland’s University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital. The youth was ready to be discharged, but the mother, working with child welfare officials, was not able to find a treatment facility and refused to pick up the youth until she could secure a safe option.
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Foster care crisis forcing hundreds of kids to sleep in offices (Part 1)

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By Catherine Candisky
| Urbana Daily Citizen Verified
By Catherine Candisky Editor’s Note: This story is one in a series of three about the foster care crisis in Ohio. COLUMBUS – Twice in the last year, Zoey, a 16-year-old in foster care, had to spend the night in the Franklin County Children Services office. She had nowhere else to go. “It was bad,” recalled the soft-spoken Zoey, a stuffed bunny clutched under her arm. “It wasn’t scary.
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