Wichita Branch NAACP Legal Redress Chair to meet with Kansas SRS Secretary Don Jordon
The Wichita Branch NAACP Legal Redress department is meeting with Kansas SRS Secretary Don Jordon this morning to discuss the contentious issue of child placements with the Kansas and Sedgwick County. While it is considered a "best practice" that children removed from their homes be placed within their own extended families, children removed from their homes in Kansas and Sedgwick County in particular, are far more likely to be permanently placed within foster homes or adopted out to non-related families. In fact, of the 356 African American children from Sedgwick County who are under the care of the State, 47% are sent outside of the county to foster homes in more rural areas of Kansas, most often not of the same cultural background. And of the 147 Bi-Racial children from Sedgwick County, 31% are sent outside of the county to foster homes in more rural areas of Kansas, most often not of the same cultural background.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win - Mahatma Gandhi
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brgds/Kevin Myles
President; Wichita Branch NAACP
Political Affairs Chair; Kansas State NAACP
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