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

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

Every day, across Virginia and the United States, thousands of families are torn apart — not because of neglect or abuse, but ...

Ashley and Joshua Drew admitted they locked a 16-year-old boy in his bedroom and withheld food. The boy lost mobility in his legs and was severely underweight at 76 pounds.

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

The project is part of a larger plan to redevelop land into Olmsted Village, an intergenerational neighborhood offering ...

The Panhandle Orphan Care Network (POCN) is partnering with the Greater Amarillo Foster Parent Association (GAFPA) to help ...

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

Foster care officials will have to prioritize placing children with their relatives under a new law signed by Illinois Gov.

Transgender residents living across the sprawling Kansas City metro are straddling two states pushing to restrict their ...

A judge in West Virginia has ordered the new chief of a state agency and several of his subordinates to be assigned as Child Protective Services workers to alleviate a critical staffing shortage.

Families who adopt children out of foster care in Indiana face potentially significant expenses that the state’s $2,000 ...