The Alaska Legislature can fix the Office of Children’s Services’s foster care violations

By: Les Gara

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: March 31, 2026

Words: 962

Last Updated: 4 months ago

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As someone who was lucky to succeed through foster care, it’s hard to watch a neglected foster care system that allows so much damage to Alaska’s most neglected children. Alarmingly, the state has chosen to violate the most important of the comprehensive foster care reforms the Alaska State Legislature passed, across party lines, in 2018. Those reforms added studied, state-of-the-art practices to improve youth health and success.

Fortunately, right now many legislators are asking …

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