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NY: Avella, Hevesi bill to amend foster care law passes both houses

September 7, 2017 by Greg Cywnar

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway

NY: Avella, Hevesi bill to amend foster care law passes both houses
Times Ledger – August 28, 2017
“Recognizing that children’s notions of ‘family’ extend beyond the people they are related to by blood, marriage, and adoption, New York has long allowed adults who have close relationship with children to be certified as ‘kinship’ foster parents when those children enter foster care,” Executive Director of Lawyers For Children Karen Freedman said. “This legislation takes the important step of also allowing those adults to be treated as kin for purposes of discharging children from foster care to permanent homes with people they consider to be their family.”
http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2017/34/kingap_2017_08_25_q.html

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