Koinonia Family Services is one of the foster family agencies that received a letter of nonrenewal. Their policy expires in 2025.
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A seismic disruption of the foster system is underway in California, with no clear solution in sight for the 9,000 school-aged children whose lives and schooling may be severely impacted.
Most foster family agencies in California either lost insurance coverage on Sept. 30 or will lose it once their current policies end after their insurer pulled out of the market.
“A blanket non-renewal would cause a collapse of the California foster family system,” the company, Nonprofits Insurance Alliance of California, acknowledged recently.
The agencies cannot remain open without insurance, and few companies offer the required coverage for the agencies, which manage thousands of foster families caring for roughly 9,000 foster children statewide.
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