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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Prevention funding for at-risk families could keep kids out of foster care

As a pediatrician working with at­-risk families and children in foster care in east Texas, I am increasingly concerned about the inconsistencies in the care they receive and the resources available to them. Our state's child welfare system is broken, as revealed by the recent high-­profile death of four­-year­-old Leiliana Wright, whose overburdened case worker was unable to visit her in Grand Prairie for 36 days, which was too late to save her life.

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