Indiana Bill HF 3626 was proposed to the House Health and Human Services Reform Committee.  This bipartisan legisl...

Georgia State Representative Bert Reeves has brought forth House Bill 159 , signed into law on March 5, which updates Ge...

California nonprofit The UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families is a collaborative hub for resear...

California 's legislators are introducing two new bills aimed to ease the funding delays caused by the Continuum of Care...

Indiana Senator Andy Zay is authoring a bill to improve communications between schools, the Department of Child Service...

Indiana Department of Education and Department of Child Services would be required to share data on students who are fost...

This podcast , developed by the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute addresses using multiple strategies to addre...

California San Juan Unified School District's Foster Youth Services program is holding its annual Foster Youth Job Shado...

California Continuum of Care Reform has the statewide goal to place more foster youth but child welfare agencies are st...

Indiana house committee has approved legislation to track children in foster care and their success in school. This bil...

Michigan Auditor General , the Legislature's main oversight arm is suing the Michigan Department of Health and Human Ser...

Kansas Lieutenant Governor Jeff Colyer announced that the administration will seek a $16.5 million funding increase ove...

Missouri Governor's wife Sheena Greitens has announced that Missouri has joined the National Electronic Interstate Compa...

California Los Angeles County Continuum of Care Reform (CCR) aims to decrease reliance on new homes.  The Resource...

Centers for the Study of Social Policy and Dartington Social Research Unit have formed a partnership to study transforma...

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has released the annual report on Adoptive Foster Care Analysis and R...

A new report finds that youth in the foster care system are leaving before they age out.  Though forty states offer...

Adoption advocates are worried that lawmakers will attempt to remove the adoption credit so they aim to increase the pres...

The House Republican tax bill is looking to eliminate the tax credit for adoptive parents.  Adoption advocates, re...

California nonprofit United Friends of the Children and USC's Dworak-Peck School of Social Work partnered together to put...

Alaska tribes and state sign first state-tribal compact for child welfare in the country.  Commissioner of the Ala...

District of Columbia Capitol Hill Foster Youth Internship Program participants put together a policy proposal related t...

Kansas Senator Laura Kelly is calling on the Department for Children and Family to come up with new procedures for respon...

California Governor Jerry Brown has approved $31 million of funding for the Emergency Child Care Bridge that provides s...

California is rolling out a new approach to the longstanding issue of how to find homes for its most difficult to place...

District of Columbia charter school, Monument Academy , serves 127 children in fifth through seventh grades. Most of t...

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is announcing a pilot project in Kent County . This project will supp...

Georgia nonprofit, Families First , has named Terry Tucker as their new Chief Executive Officer. Terry is currently th...

California is making efforts to help out-of-county foster youth . There are thousands of foster youth in California th...

Kansas Medicaid program is operated by three for-profit companies. Adoptive and foster care parent Katy Keck shared her...

Delaware Governor John Carney recently signed two bills into law that will give foster children expanded opportunitie...

Michigan is in need of more foster parents . There are many children in foster care who are in need of foster families...

Maryland County hosts a community forum that highlights the economic impact of childhood trauma . Frederick County Cha...

Florida children and teens that are in need of mental health care will now be able to receive that care through video...

Maryland has reported progress in their foster care system. There has been a 46 percent drop since 2008. Metropolitan...