PRINTER'S NO. 2337
No. 285 Session of 2002
INTRODUCED BY ORIE, MURPHY, LOGAN, COSTA, WAGNER AND BODACK,
OCTOBER 24, 2002
REFERRED TO AGING AND YOUTH, OCTOBER 24, 2002
A RESOLUTION
1 Recognizing and congratulating the Allegheny County child
2 welfare system for becoming a respected national model for
3 child welfare systems.
4 WHEREAS, In the mid-1990's, the child welfare system was in
5 crisis with foster care placements spiraling out of control and
6 large numbers of those children being placed with strangers or
7 being abused; and
8 WHEREAS, The child welfare system reinvented itself by
9 instituting innovative prevention-oriented programs, intensive
10 family counseling and child placement with extended family
11 members; and
12 WHEREAS, The Allegheny County child welfare system has been
13 called a shining national model and was recognized on CNN
14 "NewsNight" for its accomplishments; therefore be it
15 RESOLVED, That the Senate recognize the Allegheny County
16 child welfare system for the outstanding work it conducts with
17 children and congratulate it on becoming a respected national
18 model for child welfare systems everywhere.
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