BALTIMORE (WBFF) — After an audit revealed a lack of background check protocol for the Social Services Administration, a state lawmaker shared his first-hand experience with the foster care system and ...

Worrell pledged that, moving forward, he will ensure foster children have a voice, especially on legislation that affects them as lawmakers and state officials work to improve the system.

We spoke with foster care advocates to understand what becoming and supporting foster parents can look like and how crucially ...

Foster parents like the Kempers play a huge role beyond just providing a place to sleep. They are caregivers, advocates, and counselors, offering the crucial stability these children often lack.

Oklahoma joins national initiative to support foster care ...

Growing up in today’s complex world is challenging for any child, but being a foster child adds another layer of difficulty. As someone who has worked with foster youth for many years, I have ...

Children who enter foster care have interrupted childhoods, often with multiple transitions between new and often unknown caregivers, schools, and friends. While successfully transitioning into ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - For Hannah Knight, the desire to become a foster parent started in high school. One of her friends entered foster care, and it was hard for her to imagine other kids in the ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A Kentucky man who spent most of his childhood in foster care has turned his experience into a mission to help other children, fostering more than 40 kids in just three years.

Duluth foster parent Jessica Gunnarson is receiving an award Dec. 18, 2025 from Quality Parenting Initiative, a project that advocates for the child welfare system to include foster and birth families ...