Feb
28
2008
Richmond Times Dispatch - "Foster-Care Cases On The Rise In Southwest Va."
Posted by VACAP Archives at 3:49 PM Press Releases
Widespread abuse of painkillers and methamphetamine across far Southwest Virginia has led to a dramatic surge in the number of children in foster care, according to social workers struggling to cope with the boom. With mothers and fathers being led off to serve jail or prison terms for drug use, children increasingly are being sent to foster parents. That taxes social-services departments unable to afford new caseworkers, forcing them to spend time recruiting more foster families and leading them to send some children to homes out of the county...