The COVID-19 pandemic and the Family First Act have both contributed to the decline in the number of licensed homes. As a result, more children are languishing in prisons, hotels, and government offices as they await placement.
that even before COVID, there was a foster home shortage. “There’s long been an insufficient supply of safe foster homes for children who need them,” she said. “Of course, kids would rather be in a loving family than a group home, but the ideal can be the enemy of the good. Putting kids in juvenile detention facilities or county offices is an extreme response.
has elicited broad condemnation by affected communities, political leaders and child welfare advocates.In Nevada, for example, social workers have relied on empty casino hotel rooms, with oversight by child welfare workers, while they search for a place for the child to stay. Other states including Kansas, Ohio and North and South Carolina, have turned child welfare offices into de facto shelters, moving desks and chairs aside to make way for cots.
In response, Wagoner said, DSS is turning offices into bedrooms. In some cases, kids who’ve faced medical or psychiatric emergencies have had to remain in the hospital despite being ready for discharge. “We’ve heard reports of kids being confined for as long as 15 days until child welfare can locate a residential placement,” he said.
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