the Associated Press.Thursday’s agreement allows the more than 50-year partnership between the state and Sunrise Children’s Services to continue.
Sunrise Children’s Services offers foster care, residential, and therapeutic programs for youth and their families, according to the AP, which notes the agency works with children in the state with some of the highest rates of child abuse.Sunrise has taken in children since 1869, initially looking after youth orphaned after the Civil War.While the contract had been in limbo given the disagreement over its language, the state’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services announced Thursday that it had entered a one-year agreement with Sunrise.Officials at the agency said they had disputed wording that.