BOISE, Idaho — On Thursday dozens of people gathered in Payette to celebrate a place where children entering foster care can experience childhood joys. Idaho currently has more foster kids than ever ...

Heather Adams, a single mother with two biological children, adopted a 3-year-old and fosters other children. Crawford County has a shortage of foster homes, with 49 of 68 children in foster care ...

More than 100 Michigan children per year who have been taken away from their families for abuse or neglect have to spend nights sleeping in short-term shelters or even in state department lobbies when ...

The state Children, Youth and Families Department promised to license 265 new non-relative foster homes for abused and neglected children in state custody by Dec. 31, but so far has recruited less ...

In Mid-Missouri, foster children outnumber the homes available for them. Because of that imbalance, some children are left bouncing between short-term placements and others are being sent to stay in ...

More than 600,000 children move through the U.S. foster care system in a single year, according to the most recent numbers from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Children's Bureau. The ...

Amy can point out 19 houses where she grew up in her Mississippi hometown. That tally doesn’t include the places in other cities and states where child welfare workers took her to live. Driving around ...

Idaho will stop temporarily placing foster children with complex needs in short-term rentals, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare announced Tuesday. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, ...

BOISE — This summer, a girl entered Idaho’s foster system who needed treatment. She bounced around from the state’s new foster facility in Payette, to a hospital, to a psychiatric hospital, and back ...

The Isle of Man’s healthcare provider has launched a public appeal for part-time foster carers. Manx Care’s family placement service is looking for people to accommodate children for "short breaks".