Foster care privatization to debut here
Source: Elizabeth Allen, San Antonio Express-News (TX), 04/20/2006 12:00 AM CDT
San Antonio has been selected to lead the state in inaugurating a program that hands over foster care and adoption management from a state agency to local nonprofit groups. Eventually, the state says, it plans to turn over all foster child-care and adoption procedures to the community-based groups. The local operation, which would be fully functional by the end of 2007, will be the regional center for 27 counties. The state's move away from direct involvement was not unexpected; already nearly four out of five children in foster care in Texas are in community-based, mostly church-related programs.