Illinois lawmakers are moving to ensure families adopting children from the state’s foster care system receive complete ...

Aria Williams relies on her own foster care experience as a Youth Connections Advocate for Raise the Future.

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A number of bills aimed at improving the state’s foster care crisis are advancing in the House and Senate, including a ...

Republican lawmakers came to Charleston this week ready to kick off the legislative session with 16 bills they said could help fix the state’s troubled foster care system.

Family Support Services is using Binti, software that can make it easier for case workers to do their jobs and manage the ...

The 2025 audit called the training reduction and elimination of professional qualifications “woefully insufficient” to ...

Foster Success has been awarded a $400,000 Springboard Prize for Child Welfare to expand its innovative Credit Build Program, ...

I've spent over four decades in courtrooms watching an American tragedy continue to unfold. Children—some barely old enough to speak—face the traumas of abuse, neglect, removal from their natural ...

A lawsuit filed in state court by advocates for foster youth is challenging Alaska’s foster care system, highlighting a gap ...

KANSAS CITY’S NEWS LEADER KMBC NINE NEWS. THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM IS DESIGNED AS A WAY TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY’S MOST VULNERABLE MEMBERS KIDS. BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THOSE KIDS STAY IN THE SYSTEM UNTIL ...

Senate File 2096, proposing changes to foster care training requirements, is set for Senate debate as lawmakers still have ...