Families who have taken in children so they don't go into foster care could finally receive help from the state. Despite a 2024 law, the money wasn't set aside to fund "kinship care." More than ...

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 ...

After Mountain State Spotlight reporting revealed gaps in how the state compensates kinship families and connects older foster youth to programs that help them succeed as adults, lawmakers have passed ...

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 ...

AUSTIN — Lisa and Ashley Mitchell faced an uncertain future when the grandmother raising them died. Thrust into the foster care system, they could have bounced like many children from placement to ...

On average about 10 children and youth will go into Colorado's foster care system every day. Many of those children will find homes with family members, which is called kinship care. As part of ...

A new website and other needed upgraded technologies will be created and purchased by the Woodland Community College Foster & Kinship Care Education program due to a major grant awarded by the Yocha ...

AUSTIN - Lisa and Ashley Mitchell faced an uncertain future when the grandmother raising them died. Thrust into the foster care system, they could have bounced like many children from placement to ...

Angels Foster Care has started Family & Friends Together (FFT), a new kinship care program that provides intensive, trauma-informed multigenerational support to kinship families caring for foster ...

MICHIGAN — September is Kinship Foster Caregiver Month, recognizing the efforts of family members who open their homes to children while the state or local authorities sort out custody issues. The ...