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Resilient Columbus County (NC)

To promote resilience in Columbus County through education and engagement of community members regarding the lifelong impacts of adverse childhood experiences.

July 2023

With nowhere else to go, kids needing foster care sleep on the floor in county offices (northcarolinahealthnews.org)

Photo Credit: Walt Stoneburner, Flickr Creative Commons By Michelle Crouch, The Charlotte Ledger, July 5, 2023 -- With foster homes in short supply, more than 55 children over the past year have spent at least one night sleeping on an air mattress in a Mecklenburg government conference room; “It’s as bad as it’s ever been.” Dozens of children have been forced to sleep on the floor of Mecklenburg County offices over the past year because of a severe shortage of foster homes and crisis beds,...

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