Inside CT’s push to increase ‘kinship care’ placements for children

CT Mirror – Sunday, December 21, 2025
By Laura Tillman

The Thursday Victoria Woody got the phone call started out like any other in March 2024. She was at home working and preparing for a business trip, while her 9-year-old son was at school. Then the caller ID lit up — an investigator with the Connecticut Department of Children and Families was on the line with an extraordinary question: Was Woody willing to take in her sister’s five children that very day?

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