US: H.R. 3058, Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2023 (Press release) U.S. Congressional Budget Office - January 02, 2024 H.R. 3058 would require states to include a family partnership plan describing how they will recruit, screen, and retain foster and adoptive families in the plans they … [Read more...]

NY: Pleasantville Struggles to Handle Influx of NYC Kids in Crisis City and ProPublica - January 03, 2024 For more than 100 years, the village has coexisted, more or less peacefully, with the Pleasantville Cottage Campus - a residential program that, in its current iteration, houses about 160 … [Read more...]

NY: Connecting young people in foster care with a mentor who will stick by them New York Nonprofit Media - December 13, 2023 The more than 6,700 young people in New York City's foster care system, almost all of them Black or Hispanic, are at a disadvantage when it comes to aging out of the … [Read more...]

NJ: Passaic County CASA, a champion of neglected children, expands to another county (Includes video) (May require subscription) NorthJersey.com - December 14, 2023 Passaic County CASA has broadened its reach to help abused and neglected youth in a larger portion of the state. The nonprofit … [Read more...]

NY: Governor Once Again Rejects Bill to Expand New York Parents' Chances for Contact With Their Adopted Children Imprint - December 11, 2023 New York's governor has rejected a bill that would have given biological parents greater opportunity to communicate with their children who've been … [Read more...]

NY: JCCA opens new youth mental health and preventive care facility in Downtown Brooklyn (Includes video) Brooklyn Paper - December 07, 2023 The Jewish Child Care Association has opened a new state-of-the-art clinical location in Downtown Brooklyn to help clients and their families with … [Read more...]

NY: Chenango County Celebrates National Adoption Month Evening Sun - November 24, 2023 On Monday, November 20, 12 local children were adopted and joined their families at an adoption ceremony held at the Chenango County Courthouse. Chenango County Judge Frank B. Revoir, Jr., presided over the … [Read more...]

NY: Yes, for most children, there is a 'better alternative' to foster care (Opinion) (Includes video) Times Union - November 27, 2023 Imagine that you run a small software firm. One of your engineers just stopped by for his annual performance review. You ask what he accomplished in the past … [Read more...]

US: When foster care kids are sex trafficked, some states fail to figure it out Ohio Capital Journal - November 24, 2023 Foster care children are especially vulnerable to sex trafficking, and a 2014 federal law requires state authorities to screen missing children when they are found to … [Read more...]