Nonprofits Insurance Alliance
The fate of thousands of foster homes, and many of the approximately 9,000 children living in them, are in flux as California scrambles to find a solution to an insurability crisis.
Has foster care in California become uninsurable? For hundreds of the state’s nonprofit foster family agencies (FFAs), that may be the case by the end of the calendar year.
Youth Services Insider has contacted officials on all sides to explain how this situation came about, and how it could soon affect other states’ child welfare systems in the near future.
The Insurance Cliff Coming for California Foster Care at The Imprint.
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Texas is Doing More Than California to Protect Children in Foster Care
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