Nykia Gatson, a former foster kid, is helping to inform Kansas’ first-in-the-nation permanency option that allows youth in foster care who are 16 years or older to choose a trusted adult, regardless of blood relation, to guide them into adulthood. SHERMAN SMITH/KANSAS REFLECTOR
BY ANNA KAMINSKIKansas Reflector TOPEKA — As Kansas officials, foster care service providers and advocates work to improve a system with a checkered past, new…
