Relative Caregiver Program helps keep kids out of Tennessee’s foster system
Lenora Jones (middle) with her adopted granddaughters Jamyia Edwards, 15, (left) and Jaliah Edwards, 13 (right) on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Shelby County Relative Caregiver Program has helped more than 9,000 children stay with family members — keeping them out of Tennessee’s foster care system, which has the highest rate of foster care instability in the country.
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UTHSC Foster Care caregiverAisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki has spent the better part of two decades writing about Memphis. A former digital journalist for WMC Action News 5 and staff reporter for Memphis Daily News, her work has also appeared in The Commercial Appeal, High Ground News, I Love Memphis, Inside Memphis Business, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent, Memphis Magazine and Tri-State Defender.
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