The Finney County Juvenile Detention Center is opening a children’s shelter, giving teens in foster care a place to stay in Southwest Kansas.
“People are working towards building more but for now, we seem to be the only one on this side of the state and it is a big need because a lot of our kids, it’s forcing a lot of our youth to be transferred to Kansas City, Wichita, and Hutchinson,” said Shelter Coordinator William Sanchez.
A bill was passed in 2016 that has fewer youths being admitted into juvenile detention centers and this had the department looking to use some of their unneeded space for children who are in need of a place to stay after a bad situation.
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