Kansas Governor Laura Kelly announced the termination of family preservation grants that were awarded last year under the previous administration. The awarding of those grants had drawn heat from the public because one of the […]
While lawmakers push Indiana’s child welfare agency to speed up and support adoptions, the state has green-lit a plan to extend the length of time youth can remain in foster care. The Indiana Department of […]
This morning, Youth First, a national organization that assists state and local justice campaigns, has issued a notice that one of its youth activists and leaders in Ohio is missing. Amber Evans has been missing […]
Korean-born Adam Crapser came to Michigan at age 3, adopted by an American family. After being forced back to his native South Korea through deportation proceedings, he’s now suing the government and the adoption agency […]
New Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D), who was inaugurated on January 14, wasted no time delving into the state’s troubled child welfare system. In short order, the former state senator has proposed added funding for […]
If you are, or know, a young person with experience in foster care who wants to experience professional life on Capitol Hill, the deadline is Thursday to apply for the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute‘s Foster […]
Battle Over Research Findings Amid Rocky Transition in Kansas The transition of leadership in child welfare agencies is rarely a newsmaking event. Not so this year in Kansas, where the shift from Gov. Jeff Colyer […]
For most children, closing their eyes, making a wish and blowing out the candles is an annual birthday tradition. But some kids in foster care, many of whom have bounced around to different foster families, […]
Earlier this year, sweeping child welfare legislation was passed with the Family First Prevention Services Act. Key components of this new law are already being created ahead of its October 2019 implementation deadline, but what […]
With the child welfare system’s reliance on relatives soaring, and more federal resources to assist these families, Generations United is hosting a series of regional webinars next week to help educate stakeholders on building kinship […]
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