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In Okanogan County there are 50 licensed foster homes. In the Methow Valley, there is a grand total of one.
When a child must be removed from a home, the goal is to try to keep the child in the community if possible. Here in the Methow Valley, that can be difficult.
Sometimes they arrive in the middle of the night, frightened and disoriented. Sometimes they stay for only 24 hours, sometimes for a year or longer. And some will never leave. For the past six years, Aimee Budrow has been taking foster children into …
