THE POYDRAS CENTER: 500 W. Main St., New Roads. Exhibit by artists Kellie Martin Smith and Olivia McNeely Pass, through March. Hours are from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday-Friday. Free and open to the ...

Providing foster care for children, who for various reasons are without direct family support, is a vital but often little recognized public service provided by Meeker County Social Services.

Revised fostering regulations, ensuring that alternative families meet children's psychological and social needs and a specialised training programmes for foster families, educating them on how to ...

The NFYI also found that high school dropout rates are higher for foster youth than even other low-income children and more than 40% of foster children in school face “educational difficulties.” ...

Fostering Champions is an organization focused on improving the lives of foster children by giving them the resources to be successful on their own. WDBJ7 spoke to the man behind the plan about ...

I married a good man, a family man. We were beside ourselves with joy when our daughter was born, then our son. We bonded over our outrageous love for these new beings. We walked like zombies ...

Fairmont State University says it will no longer house foster children in a dorm on campus beginning in June. The university had been running a unique state-backed program to provide housing and ...

A teacher at Hunter’s Creek Middle School was arrested Wednesday for asking children to show their genitals to him during video chat in exchange for virtual game money, according to the Federal ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – A Wichita nonprofit is taking steps to improve foster parent retention, as there are over 5,500 kids in foster care throughout the state. Nathan Paulus, a co-founder of ...

is calling on community members in Riverside County to volunteer and help uplift children in the foster care system. The program trains volunteers to provide crucial support to these youth, acting as ...

Mattie Hunter, D-Chicago, said. DCFS will now be turning their focus to helping kids transition from foster care to adulthood, Mueller said. This includes funding to expand services for housing for ...

While many kids in the foster care system live with distant relatives, they may not see the same supports as certified foster parents. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill into law ...