Foster carer Ben has urged others to look into fostering children as part of a recruitment drive A foster child has said that ...

At any given time, an estimated 400,000 children and youth are in foster care nationwide. May is Foster Care Awareness Month, and New Hope for Families is encouraging community members to get involved ...

Foster care unexpectedly took center stage at President Trump’s congressional address on Tuesday. First Lady Melania Trump highlighted her Foster the Future initiative — which secures scholarships and ...

Nearly 200 foster children in Riverside County are waiting to be assigned court-appointed special advocates — CASAs — to ensure their needs are met, but there aren’t enough volunteers, prompting a ...

Oregon’s child welfare system, which previously yanked too many children from their homes, then gave some of them too little protection and care, has made measurable strides on key targets for child ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sophia Coffey knows foster care in Florida as only a foster kid can — and she is determined to change it. Growing up in the system ...

President Donald Trump's Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new program to locate missing foster children ...

Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R-Miss.) announced Mississippi has launched Operation Hope, which is an effort to locate missing ...

The Tennessee Department of Children's Services is asking foster families if they can temporarily house a child for the holidays. Tennessee has approximately 9,000 children in state custody but only ...

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun ordered the Department of Child Services to preserve all of the earned federal survivors’ benefits ...

Philadelphia’s Office of the Youth Ombudsperson was established by an executive order in 2022. Supporters say it helps track ...

The order mandates that the Indiana Department of Child Services (DCS) preserve federal earned benefits for children in care, ...