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Texas puts up barriers that keep young adults out of extended foster care programs designed to help them

State and federal laws are supposed to protect foster youth until they turn 21. But Texas all too often erects unnecessarily burdensome hurdles.

By Sandy West and Jeremy Loudenback, The Imprint
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“This was preventable”

Lack of trust and restrictive rules

Less flexibility in Texas 

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