US EditionMaryland Department of Human Services Orders End to Placing Foster Children in Hotels
Maryland will relocate six foster youth from hotels to licensed or kinship care by Nov. 24 after a fatal overdose and an audit revealed unsafe conditions.
- On Oct. 22, the Maryland Department of Human Services directed local departments of social services to end housing foster children in hotels and relocate remaining youth by Nov. 24.
- Following the Sept. 22 death of 16-year-old Kanaiyah Ward in a Baltimore hotel, a scathing audit documented unsafe placements including homes with registered sex offenders.
- A Chapin Hall sampling found all youth in hotels had impulse control issues, with nearly 60% at risk of suicide, among 410 youth in out-of-home care.
- Department officials are scheduled to appear before the Joint Audit and Evaluation Committee to answer audit questions, while Del. Mike Griffith plans to sponsor Kanaiyah's Law to limit hotel placements.
- The workgroup plans to complete an interim report by March and a final report by April as it studies resources, while KVC Kansas pilots two constellations with capacity of 10 homes each.
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Maryland Department of Human Services orders end to placing foster children in hotels
Local social services agencies have been directed by the secretary of the Maryland Department of Human Services to end the practice of housing foster care children in unlicensed facilities, including hotels. The directive, issued in an Oct. 22 memo, orders all local departments of social services to immediately stop facilitating stays in unlicensed settings “for youth experiencing out-of-home” care. The announcement comes a month after the death…
House Republicans Issue Statement On DHS Decision To Stop Placing Foster Children In Hotels - The BayNet
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – House Republicans today issued a statement in response to the Department of Human Services announcement that they will stop placing foster children in hotels. This announcement comes days before the legislative hearing on the horrendous September Audit that found DHS was keeping foster children in hotels up to two years. These foster children typically needed medical or mental health foster services. Just days after that audit w…
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