Child welfare leaders want to ensure children and teens in foster care can stay and thrive in their home communities, and we’re talking with West Michigan families and organizations who are stepping ...

Iowa is implementing a 2023 federal rule that allows states to make their own kinship-specific licensing requirements, according to foster care workers and advocates. State data from federal fiscal ...

At work, when colleagues congratulate me on becoming a parent, I smile, nod, and say thank you — it’s the expected response. But inside, I am grieving, angry and in pain. These interactions underscore ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It took less than 24 hours for Jennifer Gardinier’s family to grow from three people to eight, with the youngest new member still in diapers and the oldest ...

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kinship families, sometimes referred to as grandfamilies, are families where grandparents, other relatives or close family friends are raising children whose parents ...

Victoria Woody poses for a portrait in her home in Danbury on December 17, 2025. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror This story has been updated. The Thursday Victoria Woody got the phone call started ...