“Kentucky libraries step up to keep kids out of foster care system.” That was the headline of a recent article in the Kentucky Lantern, which detailed a $200,000 grant given to local libraries to accomplish this goal.

Libraries are places “people trust to get information, to get access to resources,” according to Britany Binkowski of the organization that is overseeing the grant. “They don’t carry the stigma, for example, of going to a child welfare department and asking for resources in a way that might feel very vulnerable.”

Keeping kids out of foster care is a laudable goal, of course, assuming that those kids don’t actually need to be in foster care to keep them safe. But how, one might wonder, would libraries accomplish it?

According to the article, “70% of all Child Protective

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