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 […]
Throughout the 1990s, the number of children in foster care surged, reaching a peak of 567,000 children in 1999. The rise occurred in the wake of the crack and cocaine epidemic, which forced tough choices […]
Kansas Development of Children and Families (DCF) has been hit with a class-action lawsuit that accuses the agency of inappropriate practices when it comes to frequency of placements in foster care. The lawsuit – brought […]
When Director Sean Anders and his wife Beth decided about eight years ago to look into adopting from the foster care system, it started as a joke. After struggling some financially as Anders focused on […]
Friends of the Children, a Portland-based nonprofit that provides paid, intensively trained mentors to at-risk youth for more than 12 years, just got a boost to its national expansion campaign from basketball legend Michael Jordan. […]
In 2015, Cheryl and Matthew Robben were at a loss for how to help their 9-year-old son they’d adopted from state foster care. But a lack of resources, and his out-of-control behaviors, had them looking […]
This month North Dakota is launching a new initiative to encourage earlier engagement with families of children who enter the foster care system. With about 1,600 children currently in foster care in the state, the […]
When it comes to helping employees who have decided to adopt a child, nobody beats NVIDIA. The California-based artificial intelligence company that offers employees up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave and assists employees […]
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) recently announced nearly $18 million in federal grants to states for Kinship Navigator programs, a model for connecting relatives caring for foster youth to benefits, counseling and other […]
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