Kids don't stay in foster care forever. What happens after that?

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Kids don’t stay in foster care forever. What happens after that?

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First Place For Youth

May 20, 2019

Mississippi Youth Voice is another new program established to help youth in care graduate college. It is part of First Place for Youth, established in Mississippi in 2017 in partnership with the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative.

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