On Jan. 23, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a waiver permitting federally funded South Carolina foster care agencies to discriminate on the basis of religion. In explaining HHS’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 5-year-old girl plays on a climbing wall at a playground in Illinois in 2023. Over the past decade, states have worked steadily ...

Nearly half of the children living in foster care in Colorado are living in kinship care, which means they're living with ...

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 ...

"When deciding exactly when to remove and where to place a child there is no magic formula," write Elisa Reiter and Daniel Pollack. The administrative decision to remove the child, D.H., from foster ...

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 is one of the biggest priorities for lawmakers in this legislative session, with multiple bills aimed at fixing ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — September is Kinship Care Awareness Month and advocates are hoping to educate Virginians about the benefits of kinship foster care in Virginia. Kinship care is when a child ...

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - The call can come at any time: children removed from their parent’s care, needing a place to stay. In East Texas, foster care organizations say more family and friends ...

EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KOAA) — A local foster care placement facility, Kids Crossing, in Colorado Springs, wants people to take advantage of a new state law that makes it easier and faster for ...

Kids play a fishing game during the foster and kinship family picnic hosted by Resources of Hope in 2024. This year’s picnic will be Saturday at New Hope Church in Greenwood and will feature food, ...

When the New Jersey Legislature amended its kinship care statute, it considered several items, including: The administrative decision to remove the child, D.H., from foster care and placing the child ...