Arizona Week

Season 3, Episode 37 of 52

TOPIC: Foster care in crisis. The number of Arizona children taken from birth parents and placed in foster care rose 36.1 percent from 2010 to 2013, according to the latest state report. That includes a 14.9 percent increase from March 2012 to March 2014. Meanwhile, the number of licensed foster homes in the state fell by 438, or 11 percent, in the last four years. We look at public policy and the effects on children and families. GUESTS: Flora Sotomayor, assistant director of the Division of Children, Youth and Family, Arizona Department of Economic Security Dana Wolf Naimark, president/CEO, Children's Action Alliance, Phoenix Susie Huhn, executive director, Casa de los NiƱos, Phoenix Rep. Kate Brophy McGee, R-Phoenix, co-chair, CPS Oversight Committee

Previously Aired

Day
Time
Channel
9/13/2013
8:30 p.m.
9/14/2013
1:30 a.m.
9/14/2013
7 p.m.
9/15/2013
10:30 a.m.
9/15/2013
4:30 p.m.
9/15/2013
6 p.m.
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