This article discusses the evolution and ongoing challenges in New York’s child protective system, especially regarding ...

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) – Raise the Future works to bring permanency to children living in foster care. Permanency is not always adoption, it can be mentorship or guardianship. When Jason, 14, needed ...

Foster care is meant to be “a temporary service for short-term care and supportive services to children who are unable to live at home because of child abuse or neglect.” The longer a child remains in ...

When a child is in the care and custody of the state of Maryland in a Child in Need of Assistance case, that child must have a permanency plan, which is determined by the juvenile court. “The ...

Call me a “traditionalist,” but I propose that children flourish best in families. However, I’m not naive enough to believe that family can only be defined in a narrow sense. Children need at least ...

This research study examined the experiences of birthparents, permanent parents, and mediators in permanency mediation following a state child welfare agency's recommendation for termination of ...

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Michael McSurdy is president and CEO of Family & Children’s Service in Nashville. Each year in May, efforts are made to increase awareness of the foster care system, the roles foster parents play, and ...

On March 31, AEI hosted a discussion on child welfare priorities, moderated by AEI’s Naomi Schaefer Riley. Experts Jedd Medefind of the Christian Alliance for Orphans, Rachel N. Morrison of the Ethics ...

Late last year, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced that he wanted the Beehive State to be the first in the country to have a waiting list for parents seeking to foster and adopt, as opposed to a list of ...

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