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Foster Success has been awarded a $400,000 Springboard Prize for Child Welfare to expand its innovative Credit Build Program, a first-of-its-kind initiative designed to ...

More than 350,000 American kids are now wards of the state — that means the government has assumed the parental role for these foster children. Some will end up with foster families, some in group ...

St. Jude’s Ranch for Children has launched its community foster care program to address the need for more foster families in ...

FAMILY GATHERING: Nikki Owen, left, is pictured with her three children, parents, brother and her brother’s girlfriend. After years in the foster care system, Owen was adopted when she was 17. Photo ...

West Virginia has a new foster care ombudsman tasked with reviewing concerns and complaints in the state’s overburdened child ...