This week's Word of Thanks supports Kempe's KICS Clinic. It's a pediatric care clinic in conjunction with Children's Hospital and they work with kids in foster care. Pizzaman who rescued 4 kids ...

Act would allow the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services more flexibility in certifying grandparents and other ...

The new law puts an obligation on the Department of Children and Family Services to use a “kin-first approach” when placing ...

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 J.B. Pritzker signed a bill that aims to loosen up outdated requirements within the childcare welfare system.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 ...

Michelle Hayes, the director of foster care for the Children’s Home Association of Illinois, said this new law will build ...

Black youth are overrepresented in the foster care system in the United States. According to the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS), there were 368,530 youth in the ...

When children enter the foster care system, some will live in a group setting with caretakers called "group home parents.

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word ... t enough foster carers for the number of children in care, charity ...

SINGAPORE: When he was in his teens, Eugene Francesco Ong-Nonis used to dodge his friends’ questions about why he looked nothing like his dad and mum. It was “not normal” to be a foster ...