Janet Kelly column: COVID-19 does affect kids [richmond.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 4/14/204:00 AM

By Janet Kelly, Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 12, 2020

“Can you help?” the social worker asked. “We have a kid with nowhere to go. I’m worried she might run away. She knows we don’t have any good foster family options for her.”

Conversations like this between child welfare officials and their nonprofit partners are happening all across Virginia more often because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The health and economic implications of the COVID-19 crisis are rightfully at center stage right now, but just behind the curtain is another concern: vulnerable children and teens.

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