Helping the Most Troubled Kids - Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism

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Helping the Most Troubled Foster Kids

9 Nov 2009

Elaine Korry

Foster children with serious mental or emotional problems are often confined for years in institutions. But a new treatment method is helping some of these troubled kids grow up in families. This is the last of a three-part series on foster care in California.

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http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R911090850/a

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