Kansas to allow foster care teens to choose, form legal mentor relationships with trusted adults

Former foster care child Kristen Nicole Powell welcomed signing of Kansas law creating a program enabling foster care participants 16 years or older to pick an adult mentor or mentors to form long-term legal relationships as an alternative to reunification, adoption and appointment of a guardian. SHERMAN SMITH KANSAS REFLECTOR
BY TOM CARPENTER Kansas Reflector TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly signed legislation making Kansas the first state to implement a program enabling children 16 years…
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