246
408,42
That's how many children were in Foster Care in the US last year.
The average stay in Foster Care is 28 months.
At a staff meeting today for the alternative school I work at we were discussing meeting the needs of the whole person as opposed to targeting very specific behaviors and, for lack of a better turn, ignoring certain other aspects of a kid's life because, quite frankly, we just don't have the time.
Think of over 400,000 kids, disrupted from their family, even if that disruption is good, and most of them are school-aged. What are we to do
It is a daunting-task. Impossible, really.
Yet that was why I was so excited about IFI. We had THE answer.
That answer was a person, Jesus.
chris
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