Stories

Who Cares 2020: Executive Summary

Why Better Data Sharing Is Critical to Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities

Theresa Covington

The Support Relative Caregivers Need to Take on the Role of Foster Parent

Jenny Keefe and Nikeyah Flagg

What Are the Right Questions on Foster Care Performance?

Foster Parent Recruitment Requires Collaboration

Why California's Reform of Foster Care Has Fallen Short So Far

A Roadmap for Recruiting Foster Parents: What We Learned with Home Away from Home

How We Downsized Congregate Care in Connecticut

The Top Ten Ways to Lose A Foster Parent

We Have to Better Understand What Foster Parents Need

Who Cares 2019: Executive Summary

Keeping Newborns Home with Voluntary Home Visits

California’s $140 Million Bet on Foster Parent Recruitment

We Want Kids to Grow Up in Safe Families. So Let’s Measure That.

Andy Barclay and Melissa Carter

Government is not the best first responder to family crisis. Family is.

We Need Kinship Caregivers and They Need A Safety Net

Sharon McDaniel

With Foster Care Numbers At A 15-Year High, Georgia Looks to Relatives

For LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care, Finding Home Is Hard

Terrence Scraggins

Kin Prop up Illinois' Foster Care System, With Limited Support

Deborah Shelton

The Foster Care Surge Has Leveled Off. Has The Opioid Epidemic?

Christie Renick

Higher Calling: L.A. County Increases its Reliance on Churches to Serve Foster Children

"Who Cares: A National Count of Foster Homes and Families" 2018 Executive Summary

The Push to Permit Faith-Based Discrimination Seems Destined for Supreme Court

San Francisco Faith Group Supports Foster Families

In Quest to Meet Demand for Foster Parents, Some Agencies Look to Craigslist

Recruiting Asian Foster Parents

Helping Retain Parents with Retreats and Respite

Kim Phagan-Hansel

Half of Foster Parents Stop In Their First Year. That Can’t Continue

How To Crack the Foster Home Recruitment Code

Jeremy Loudenback

How San Francisco Increased Foster Parent Applications by 300 Percent

Felicia Curcuru

Despite Increased Funding for Recruitment, Three California Counties Struggle to Find New Foster Homes

Holden Slattery

One Faith-Based Organization Recruits Half of Arkansas Foster Parents