Chronicle: Foster care [Video]

THE STORIES AND PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY. THIS IS KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S CHRONICLE. RIGHT NOW, THERE ARE MORE THAN 4000 CHILDREN IN NEBRASKA’S FOSTER CARE SYSTEM. THAT’S MORE THAN THE POPULATIONS OF 93% OF NEBRASKA TOWNS. GOOD MORNING. I’M ROB MCCARTNEY. HUNDREDS OF THOSE CHILDREN ARE WAITING FOR ADOPTIVE FAMILIES. SO THIS MORNING ON CHRONICLE, WHAT LAWMAKERS AND LOCAL EXPERTS ARE DOING TO PROMOTE FOSTER PARENTING PROVIDE A HOME AND STABILITY FOR CHILDREN WITH TRAUMATIC FAMILY EXPERIENCES. CHILDREN LIKE CLINTON CEDAR DAHL, NOW AN ADULT, HE GREW UP IN FOSTER CARE AND CHRONICLES JULIE CORNELL RECENTLY SAT DOWN WITH CLINT TO TALK ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE AND HOW HE’S DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO HELPING OTHER CHILDREN IN NEED. I WAS PROBABLY ABOUT EIGHT, MAYBE 5 OR 6. HE WAS A LITTLE BOY FROM LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WHO WAS INTO TOLD HIM HIS CHILDHOOD WAS DIFFERENT. I KIND OF PUT …