Washington awarded grant to help foster children with emotional disabilities

"The federal Administration of Children and Families has awarded Washington a $639,000 grant to enhance mental health services for children in foster care.

“The partnership  between the Department of Social and Health  Services and the University  of Washington will allow our state to be in  the forefront nationally to improve access to evidence-based practices for foster children with behavioral health disabilities,”  said Eric Trupin, Director of the  Evidence Based Practice Institute at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

“The grant will also have a particular emphasis on reducing the emotional trauma many of these children experience,” he said...."

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