US: Parental Relinquishments Account for 5% Of Foster Care Entries, Feds Find Imprint - January 15, 2025 A landmark study released today by the Department of Health and Human Services found a significant number of youth enter foster care each year because of child behavioral health issues that … [Read more...]

PA: The Children's Home of York was founded to serve orphans after the Civil War (Opinion) York Daily Record - January 15, 2025 Ara Marguerite Starner was just 2 years old when she entered the Children's Home of York in 1929. Her mom was in bad health and worked but did not bring home enough … [Read more...]

US: President Biden Signs into Law Legislation to Strengthen Child Welfare System and Bolster Child Support Enforcement Efforts, Includes Moore-Led Proposals (Press release) U.S. Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth - January 10, 2025 "As co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth, I … [Read more...]

NY: Families Thrive: ACS Prevention Services Spark Hope And Healing Harlem World Magazine - January 07, 2025 Today, the NYC Administration for Children's Services (ACS) released key findings from its annual, "ACS Prevention Family Experience Survey", showing strong satisfaction with the … [Read more...]

US: Top Stories of 2024: Foster Care's Downward Trend Imprint - December 27, 2024 The number of youth in foster care had already declined in the United States when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020. That year, it plummeted from a total of 425,974 to 407,332, with some fearing that the drop was … [Read more...]

US: Top Stories of 2024: How We Support Kin Imprint - December 30, 2024 Child welfare systems increasingly rely on relatives and other kinship caregivers to step in when investigators and courts feel a child cannot remain in their home. In 2024, The Imprint explored the state of kinship care … [Read more...]

US: Top Stories of 2024: CASA's Frozen Funds Imprint - December 24, 2024 Near the end of 2023, The Imprint's Michael Fitzgerald broke the story that the federal government had frozen a primary source of funding to the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) national association - a nonprofit … [Read more...]

US: Foster Parenting 101: How to Get Started and What You Need to Know (Commentary) Reverie Page - November 11, 2024 Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of children, orphans, abandoned, or for whatever other reason, live in foster homes or in foster care. These children are often … [Read more...]

NY: NYC foster kids would get luggage for belongings instead of trash bags under new bill Gothamist - November 11, 2024 Like so many parents, New York City Councilmember Rita Joseph said she will never forget those first moments with her children. But as a foster parent, who eventually adopted … [Read more...]

US: Torn Apart: How the Abolition Movement Destroys Foster Youth - And How Listening To Us Can Build A Safer World (Opinion) Child Welfare Monitor - November 12, 2024 The movement to abolish the current child welfare system -spearheaded by the organization upEND and its co-founder, Alan … [Read more...]