DCFS secretary says he wants to encourage people to support foster families

BATON ROUGE - Nearly 4,200 Louisiana children are in the foster care system, and during the entire month of May, the Department of Children and Family Services is encouraging people to become or support foster parents.“Foster parents aren’t the kind of people who will go up and say ‘Hey, I need,'" DCFS Secretary David Matlock said. “They’re the kind of people to ask what you need.”Matlock says the department is working to streamline th