10/31/17 – 2:20 P.M.
Hancock County Jobs and Family Services is working to keep families together. Director Diana Hoover said that the Kinship Caregiver Services program goes to support family members taking in related children.
Hoover said that the program helps families with finding and funding daycare, transportation, beds, and clothes to name a few. She added that keeping the families together is important for the emotional and mental stability
Hoover explained that if a family member doesn’t take in the child then they are put into foster care.