FosterAdopt Connect hosted its annual Back to School event Saturday at Eastgate Commerce Center, with donated school supplies distributed to children in the foster care system throughout the metro area. More than 900 children had been registered, said FosterAdopt Connect, which recently made cut 15 jobs in its behavioral intervention program due to losses in state funding from both Kansas and Missouri. [Photo courtesy of Shelly Yang/FosterAdopt Connect]
By Mike Genet mike.genet@examiner.net Due to funding cuts in both Kansas and Missouri, the Independence-based nonprofit FosterAdopt Connect says it was forced to lay off…