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Foster care stakeholders seek to send ‘ripples’ or a ‘tidal wave’ of change

Meeting gathers agencies, churches, nonprofits, court leaders and parents in effort to ease challenges

Lindsey Bray, center, administrator for foster care in Hall County, chats with Ashley Smith, adoptions supervisor, at the Hall County Division of Family and Children Services in Gainesville, on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. - photo by David Barnes

12032017 FOSTER 0002.jpg — Lindsey Bray, center, administrator for foster care in Hall County, chats with Ashley Smith, adoptions supervisor, at the Hall County Division of Family and Children Services in Gainesville, on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. - photo by David Barnes

173. 176. 202. 251. 274. Those are the rising numbers of Hall County’s children in foster care over the past five years, most of them placed in homes outside the county.