Foster Care Needs in Manatee County

Coconut Telegraph

With the heroin and opioid epidemic impacting many aspects of a healthy community and causing dramatic increases in the number of children requiring foster care, the Charles and Margery Barancik Foundation has awarded a grant to the Manatee Community Foundation to convene stakeholders around the issue. They will create an action plan providing solutions that private and foundation philanthropy can help address. Staff and volunteers from charitable organizations and local governments will meet at Manatee Community Foundation in a series of six discussions over the next two months. According to the Florida Department of Children and Families, 439 children in Manatee County were removed from their homes from January 1 through October 31, 2016. Not all removals were connected to drug addiction.

Manatee Community Foundation

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