{"id":900,"date":"2017-09-25T21:25:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T21:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wptest.mdek12.org\/testsite2\/foster_care\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T21:58:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T21:58:54","slug":"foster_care","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/ocsa\/foster_care\/","title":{"rendered":"Foster Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\">On June 23, 2016, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released joint guidance to states, school districts and child welfare agencies on the new provisions in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for supporting children\/youth in foster care. The guidance aims to assist state and local partners in understanding and implementing the new law, and to inform state and local collaboration between educational and child welfare agencies across the nation for the well-being of children in foster care.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/policy\/elsec\/leg\/essa\/edhhsfostercarenonregulatorguide.pdf\">Foster Care Non-Regulatory Guidance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/policy\/elsec\/leg\/essa\/edhhsfostercaredcl.pdf\">Dear Colleague Letter on Foster Care Guidance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/policy\/elsec\/leg\/essa\/edhhseffectivedatesdcl.pdf\">Dear Colleague Letter on Foster Care Timelines<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Foster Care Guidance<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdek12.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Offices\/MDE\/OAE\/OCSA\/foster_care_joint_guidance_2024.pdf\">Foster Care Joint Guidance from MDE &amp; MDCPS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>State Points of Contact<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Mississippi Department of Education Point of Contact \u2013 Terissa Williams, 662-563-9332<br \/>\nMississippi Department of Child Protection Services Point of Contact \u2013 Cynthia Moore-Hardy, 601-502-7429<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Foster Care Contacts<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>School District Foster Care Points of Contact<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdcps.ms.gov\/foster-youth\/foster-youth-resources\">Mississippi Department of Child Protective Services Foster Youth Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 23, 2016, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released joint guidance to states, school districts and child welfare agencies on the new provisions in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for supporting children\/youth in foster care. The guidance aims to assist state and local partners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-900","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/ocsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/ocsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/ocsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/ocsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/ocsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/ocsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/ocsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/900\/revisions\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/ocsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}