Children's Rights Report Shows Slow Progress

(Detroit, MI)  --  A new report by "Children's Rights" shows Michigan has not found safe, permanent families for thousands of children stranded in foster care, and is at risk of backsliding further if changes aren't made.  According to the report, more than six-thousand children in Michigan's foster care system are waiting for permanent homes and more than half of the children already legally free for adoption have waited more than a year for their adoptions to be finalized.  Additionally, eight-percent of legally-free children aged out of the system without permanent homes.  Across the state, 37-percent of workers responsible for monitoring ongoing child protective service cases are carrying caseloads larger than 30 children each.  Adoption workers, the report says, are also continuing to carry caseloads that are too large. 

-Metro Source