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Welcome to Who Cares: A National Count of Foster Homes and Families

Who Cares 2020: Executive Summary

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

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

Caring for Our Caregivers

What Are the Right Questions on Foster Care Performance?

Recruiting Foster Families in America's Biggest Cities

Foster Parent Recruitment Requires Collaboration

How We Downsized Congregate Care in Connecticut

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

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

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

Why Keeping Current Foster Parents Can Be More Important Than Recruiting New Ones

California’s $140 Million Bet on Foster Parent Recruitment

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

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

We Need Kinship Caregivers and They Need A Safety Net

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

This Life with Gracie: Is Georgia’s foster care system really in crisis?

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

For LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care, Finding Home Is Hard

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

More ND kids are in foster care, but new federal laws look to reduce numbers

Faith and Foster Care in L.A.

Study: More children placed with relatives in Illinois foster care system

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

Permanency in the News – Week of 10/15/18

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

In South Carolina, Foster Youth Total Rises As Available Foster Homes Continue to Decline

South L.A. Churches Unite to Aid Foster Families and Youth

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

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

How To Crack the Foster Home Recruitment Code

How San Francisco Increased Foster Parent Applications by 300 Percent

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

One Faith-Based Organization Recruits Half of Arkansas Foster Parents

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