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When you become a foster parent, you support children while their family works toward reunification. Learn the steps and requirements for foster care.

A year ago, Oregon child welfare leaders signed a court settlement promising to stop housing vulnerable foster children in hotels, state offices and juvenile detention centers instead of with families. Since the settlement, the state has placed dramatically more children and teens in institutional settings including repurposed juvenile jails.

Levi Zwick-Tapley first entered foster care when he was 3, after police found him rummaging through the trash at a campground in Iowa. He was adopted — briefly — when he was 10. But then his adoptive mother, struggling with issues of her own, gave him up for good. So Zwick-Tapley spent his teen years […]

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Single mom fosters 13 boys and adopts teenage son from foster care. Read more.

Now that I’m getting up in the night with baby, I’ve been getting my house show fix on at 3 in the morning. It’s kind of the perfect time to watch television all by myself (well,…

A year and a half after L.A. County closed down its 24-hour "welcome centers" for foster youth with nowhere else to go, the temporary shelters that replaced them fall short of a long-term solution for placing teens in permanent homes.

In at least 36 states and the District of Columbia, child welfare agencies use a child's benefit checks to offset the cost of foster care, often leaving them with a tattered safety net as adults.

October the first, 1992 is a day to remember - then, by the tunes of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture’s finale and with cartoon explosions on the screens, the Cartoon Network channel was launched. A historical day, indeed! And, although it wasn’t the first channel with animation as its main attraction, it was definitely the first 24-hour broadcaster to show animation exclusively. Just a year later, in 1993, in addition to an extensive Warner Bros cartoon library, Cartoon Network added its first…

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Many times, children may immediately be removed from their parents if the situation is dangerous. What this means for a foster parent is that calls can happen at anytime of day or night. One summer night, our phone rang at 11pm. As I groggily answered the call, a caseworker told me that she had a […]

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Your home study is done! Shew! Take some time to shake out that hand that has been signing an endless stream of paperwork! This was the point where I got shopping happy. Like literally. Buy all the…

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