Across our Nation, hundreds of thousands of American children depend upon the foster care system to shelter them, nurture them, and prepare them for lives of purpose and promise. This National Foster ...

Oklahoma is the first state in the nation to join the federal “Home for Every Child” initiative led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The initiative aims to increase the number of ...

PERKINSTON — Monica Robinson begins her day at 5:30 a.m., driving a school bus before starting her full-time job as a social worker for a Mississippi school district. After work, she heads home to ...

Join WHYY News at West End Neighborhood House in Wilmington on Tuesday, Dec. 2, to learn about foster care and adoption opportunities in Delaware. Leer en español. As Delaware’s foster care system ...

“I’ve been so blessed in coming to America, what it has given me,” British “Batman” actor Christian Bale tells Key News Network. He knows plenty of others are far less fortunate. When his now-adult ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Thousands of children across Virginia are waiting for a safe place to call home, and hundreds of them are right here in our hometowns. That’s the current state of the foster care ...

In the United States, more than 390,000 children are currently in foster care. Each year, between 19,000 and 30,000 youth “age out” of the system without permanent families or lifelong supports. The ...

COLUMBIA — Ten years after the settlement of a class action lawsuit that alleged rampant neglect and abuse within South Carolina’s group homes, the state’s foster care system has improved in certain ...

The Peak, a specialized foster care agency in Roswell, received a referral from the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department late last year. A teenage girl who had shot and killed her father ...