JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Foster Closet, a local nonprofit, continues to be a beacon of hope for foster children. As they face ...

In most Missouri counties, children linger in foster care longer than the federal standard, according to data compiled by the ...

A sea of blue over took the Texas state capitol on Thursday, as Texas CASA volunteers and advocates spent the day advocating ...

The Missouri Senate unanimously passed a bill prohibiting the state's social services agency from seizing Social Security benefits from foster children. The legislation aims to address concerns ...

Though the Department of Human Services, which operates Maryland’s foster care system, is working to limit the practice and using it only as a last resort, several hundred foster children were ...

Most Missouri counties fail to meet the federal standard for placing foster children in permanent homes within a year. Missouri's Children's Division is under federal scrutiny for declining ...

Janaya Taylor was still in elementary school, she said, when she was taken from her father’s house into the child welfare system. She lived with her adult cousin, then her grandmother, then in ...

As parents navigate a new chapter in their family story following a disaster, psychological science can offer guidance to ...

Rob Scheer and his five kids each made their own journey through the foster care system with a trash bag in tow. Rob was 12 the first time a case worker told him to shove his belongings in a trash ...

Iowa saw more children in foster care who were referred to a home last year than there were licensed foster families, according to Four Oaks, the state’s contractor for licensing foster and adoptive ...