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Feb. 4, 2021Topeka, KS |  By: AP

Kansas tightens oversight of troubled foster care provider

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ 

The top child welfare official in Kansas says her agency has tightened financial 

oversight of one of the state's largest foster care management providers. The 

Kansas Department for Children and Families said in a news release Wednesday 

that provisions have been added to the grant agreement with Salina-based Saint 

Francis Ministries. Secretary Laura Howard says she remains concerned about 

Saint Francis Ministries' prior lack of transparency regarding their financial 

health. The state's child welfare agency said in December employees of Saint 

Francis Ministries had falsified documents to show visits with families that 

never took place.