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Since the election of Donald Trump, there have been glimpses of the potential fallout for vulnerable children in foster care — those whom the state is responsible for parenting. We are looking at the possibility of disastrous cuts that will adversely affect children and families for generations to come.

The last time Lerone Matthis was released from the Division of Juvenile Justice on April 2008, the juvenile justice system for troubled youth, he feared he had reached the bottom. “I was discouraged by the prospects for a meaningful future,” Matthis recalled.