Sullivan County is not the only one in the Hudson Valley whose number of foster children has spiked in recent years.Like Sullivan, Darcie Miller, commissioner of the Orange County Department of Social Services, named the opioid crisis as the reason.Between 1995 and 2017, neighboring Orange County peaked in 2002 with 501 foster kids, according to the most recent data from the New York State Office of Children and Family Services.It dropped to a low of 331 children in 2015 [...]

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