Jessica Eagle Star helps her son Noran across the monkey bars at the park in Winner on Aug. 29, 2023. Eagle Star has served as a state-licensed foster parent. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) ...
Child welfare agencies in Maryland and throughout the U.S. have long recognized that children who enter the foster care system usually benefit from placement within their family of origin whenever ...
Earlier this year the Biden administration made headlines for including a large investment in kinship foster care in their 2023 proposed budget. This was historic for many reasons, most importantly ...
Title: Keeping them in the family: outcomes for children placed in kinship care through care proceedings Authors: Joan Hunt, Suzette Waterhouse, Eleanor Lutman Institution: Joan Hunt and Eleanor ...
Jahnine Davis, who was in a kinship care arrangement as a child, will be tasked with challenging councils to improve practice, amplifying children's voices and championing kinship care within ...
September is National Kinship Care Month, and on Sept. 15, the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) hosted a kickoff event for the new Colorado Kinnected Kinship Navigator Program at the Adams ...
PUEBLO, Colo. (KRDO) -- A new Colorado law is going into effect, offering more support to kinship care foster families. Kinship care fostering is when a child is cared for by a family member, like a ...
Deputy Director Translational Research and Social Innovation Group at the Ingham Institute, Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University This research was jointly ...
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 ...