People are being asked to consider becoming foster "aunts and uncles" and look after children for short periods. Durham ...

GEORGETOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — The woman who was in charge of a Jenison adult foster care home the night a man walked away and died said the home was understaffed and that she was not properly ...

This is part three in On the Edge series. Since the pandemic, fewer families have been signing up to become foster parents. In North Carolina, the number of licensed foster homes dropped 23% in one ...

A national foster care agency, Bethany Christian Services, plans to open a second facility in Charlotte that would process unaccompanied children, sent in large part from the U.S.-Mexico border. The ...

ATLANTA — As Foster Care Awareness Month comes to a close, child welfare advocates are highlighting a pressing issue in Georgia’s foster care system; the lack of available foster families in local ...

A Columbus-based foster care agency is reaching out to local communities due to the dire need for foster homes for teenagers. “We are seeing countless referrals for youth coming in who need placements ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – The Missouri Department of ...

Oregon’s head of human services said the state is conducting an audit of its child welfare contracting process and considering an external review in response to issues highlighted by OPB last fall.

BOISE, Idaho — Parenthood requires care and love, not DNA. The Monteith family knows how true that is. At a party three years ago, they spoke to another family who planted the idea of foster care in ...

For one New Orleans teenager, a year in the foster care system has added up to more than a lifetime of moves. Since he entered "the system" a year ago, the 17-year-old has cycled through group homes ...