Morrisey launches effort to bring out-of-state foster child placements back to West Virginia

CHARLESTON – Less than a year after he first stated intentions to bring foster children in out-of-state facilities back to West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced Monday the first steps toward making that goal a reality. In a press conference in Barboursville Thursday afternoon, Morrisey announced that the state Department of Human Services was entering into a five-year lease with Utah-based Youth Health Associates to reopen a former public school in Barboursville for a 36-bed facility to begin the process of bring home the 513 children in state custody who have been placed in out-of-state…