This excellent report from Wall Street Journal Online, written by Christina Binkley, covers with great care an area of considerable promise in foster care.

"A longtime licensed clinical social worker, 53-year old Linda Librizzi, is in the vanguard of a growing revolution in child welfare. She is a 'family finder.' Thanks to computer search technology, social workers have for the first time a powerful tool ( used today in 40 communities around the U.S) to locate the family members of 'cold cases,' children who spend years moving from foster home to foster home until their biological families' whereabouts are unknown."

Twelve-year old Tony Ruiz, a teen in serious trouble who had spent nine years in foster care and nine different homes, was fortunate to find a friend in Judy Smith, a volunteer court advocate and the only person who had known him for any length of time. It was she who turned to Linda Fabrizzi.

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