Foster Care Reimbursement Rates – Missouri

Foster care reimbursement rates in Missouri among lowest in US, By Carla Jimenez, January 1, 2011, Columbia Missourian: “Karen Anderson has been a foster parent for 31 years. ‘It goes back so far that I don’t even really remember now,’ she said. ‘But I wanted to make a difference for children.’ Anderson has been a foster parent for so long that she hasn’t even kept track of how many children she’s taken in over the years. She estimates, though, that the number is around 180. Anderson, 55, has seen a lot change in her tenure as a level B, formerly known as a ‘career-level,’ foster parent. One thing that has been consistent over her three decades of foster parenting is the low compensation she gets from the state…”