Clinic Students Help Gain Legislature’s Passage of Foster Care Bill
November 13, 2010 at 5:00 AM by Aaron T. Evans
While entering the foster care system is a drastic change in a child’s life, losing the comfort and companionship of a sibling can be devastating.
The Penn State Children’s Advocacy Clinic recently teamed up with several organizations to draft legislation that would require county children and youth agencies to make every reasonable effort to place siblings together in foster care unless doing so is contrary to the safety and well-being of any sibling. Sponsored by State Representative Briggs (D-Montgomery), House Bill 2258: Keeping Siblings in Foster Care Together unanimously passed (49-0) in the Pennsylvania Senate on Oct. 13, 2010, and awaits signature by Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell.
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Isabella Brooke Knightly and Austin Gamez-Knightly
In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
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