Foster care recruitment is in a "much better place" than it has been in a "long time", the assistant director of the Isle of ...

House Bill 1248 would give foster parents priority for CCDF, a program child welfare advocates say is needed for foster ...

This project is a collaboration between the Plainview Herald and Saint Francis Ministries to showcase kids who are cleared ...

SPRINGFIELD — Jeanette Byrd went from grandmother to guardian when the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Every week on KVUE, we feature a different child in the Texas foster care system, in hopes of helping them ...

WRAL's revealing new documentary, "Broken: Foster Care in North Carolina," premieres Thursday. The documentary exposes ...

All Tammarisk Lyman had to do to get her kids back from the state of Kansas, her lawyer repeatedly told her in emails, was ...

On Wednesday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill that aims to loosen up outdated requirements within the childcare welfare system. Called the Kinship in Demand Act, social workers said this new law will ...

Change isn’t always easy, especially when you’re a teenager. It’s something Charles has become accustomed to over his three ...

Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday signed a bill aimed at making it easier for relatives of children in the state’s care to get ...

A bill making it easier for a child’s relative to become their foster parent is now law in Illinois. Gov. J.B. Pritzker on ...

Governor JB Pritzker signed House Bill 4781, the Kinship in Demand (KIND) Act into law, allowing the Illinois Department of ...