A recent federal report gave Kentucky’s foster care system a failing grade in every area, and its worst rating was for finding children a permanent home.
Governor Matt Bevin and the First Lady joined the leaders from the Cabinet of Health and Family Services on Friday for a foster care summit.
The goal was to explain the problems Kentucky faces and ask more families to adopt.
A recent federal report exposed a huge shortage of workers and an increased demand on the system due to drug use.
In 2016, Kentucky had its highest number of adoptions in the past decade, but 8,000 children remain in foster care.
At the foster care summit, state leaders explained plans to simplify the state’s adoption process including a new computer system to identify the needs of different communities.
In his State of the Commonwealth of speech, Governor Bevin said he was going to appoint a foster care or adoption czar to the state. Friday, he announced he should be able to name that person sometime next week.
Source: WAVE
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