Local program works to pair shelter pets with temporary fosters for the holidays

You can sign up for the Home for the Holidays temporary foster program until Thursday, Dec 18, at 5 p.m. The animals are all ...

Bakersfield foster family agency seeks $1M to provide housing for homeless youth

A foster family agency in Bakersfield is asking for $1 million from the city to provide housing for the growing number of ...

CASA seeks donations to bring holiday cheer to foster children

Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children, or CASA, is a program made up of volunteers who are judge-appointed advocates ...
Mountain State Spotlight

There’s money available to help West Virginia’s former foster kids. Morrisey wouldn’t commit to spending it all.

State officials left money for former foster kids unspent. Morrisey officials offer little information on whether the problem ...

Gov. Morrisey advocates for in-house foster care

Policy changes could be coming to help keep West Virginia foster children inside state lines. West Virginia Governor Patrick ...
News and Sentinel

Morrisey to create fund to help to bring home foster children, improve facilities

Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced a plan to bring home the hundreds of West Virginia foster children in out-of-state placement ...
Central Illinois Proud

FamilyCore celebrates 125 years serving central Illinois families

FamilyCore, a 125-year-old human service organization in Central Illinois, has been providing counseling, adoption, foster ...

West Virginia got federal money to help foster kids succeed, but it sent millions of dollars back

A month later, West Virginia sent back nearly $5 million for two grants through the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence ...
Noozhawk

Chumash Charity Golf Classic Brings in $135,000 for Three Nonprofits

The Chumash Charity Golf Classic raised $135,000 this year, with proceeds split among Angels Foster Care, CALM and Mental Wellness Center, the Santa Ynez ...
The Journal Record

Oklahoma child care advocacy group sues DHS over end of subsidies

Oklahoma child care providers sue DHS to restore $5/day pandemic-era subsidy for school-age children after federal funding ...
University of Delaware

Building connections and community

Doctoral student supports youth with foster care experience, drawing on personal experience and strengths of UD's program ...
The Southern Maryland Chronicle on MSN

Older children in Maryland foster care face adoption hurdles

Child advocates in Maryland highlight ongoing challenges for older youth in foster care finding permanent homes, even as the ...