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Is foster parenting for you? Learn why love alone isn’t enough, and why a trauma-informed lens can change everything.

Perfection not necessary to be a foster parent. You just need to be patient, flexible and open-hearted. It's not easy, but it ...

This May, the Vermont Department for Children and Families (DCF) recognizes National Foster Care Month by honoring foster and kinship families across the state. These families open their ...

Each year, over 20 thousand foster youth age out of care at 18 years old. While testifying before Congress, one former foster youth said, “When I graduated high school, the adults I relied on vanished ...

The number of people who took in a juvenile family member was nearly 16 percent higher in 2025 than in 2023, when the state began paying unlicensed kinship caregivers.

Questions about Kern County’s child welfare system are continuing as an out-of-state family with Choctaw heritage fights for ...