Foster care

Everything on foster care

2026 · 30 articles

• Foster Care Realities, Problems, and Solutions

  July 5, 2026

• Child Abuse and Child Protection Stories & Statistics Arizona & Arkansas

  June 19, 2026

• Adoption & Foster Care In America – (their stories, your state)

  June 19, 2026

• How Foster Care and Group Homes Fail America’s Most Troubled Children

  June 6, 2026

• How Alcohol, Drugs, and Poverty Drive Child Abuse: From Fetal Alcohol Syndrome to Criminal Neglect

  June 6, 2026

• The War on Fosters: How America’s Foster Care System Fails Youth

  June 6, 2026

• Foster Child Self-Harm & Suicide June 2025

  May 27, 2026

• Extended Foster Care: Problems and Solutions (podcast #2 in foster care series)

  May 21, 2026

• Foster Care Mental Health Needs, Costs, and Facts for Minnesota & The Nation

  May 18, 2026

• State of Foster Care In America

  May 16, 2026

• The Foster Care Data We Don’t Track – And How This Hurts Children

  May 9, 2026

• Essential Foster Care Videos and Podcasts: Powerful Resources for Foster Youth and Families

  May 2, 2026

• What Foster Parents Can Do: Healing, Advocating, and Transforming Lives - 3

  May 1, 2026

• Federal Chafee Changes vs. Minnesota Reality: Are Foster Youth Getting What They Need?

  April 22, 2026

• Foster Facts and Resources For Families: Healing, Advocating, and Saving Young Lives

  April 13, 2026

• Cost Neutral Child Protection: The Deadly Lesson of Gabriel Fernandez

  April 12, 2026

• Ethan’s Story: How Foster Care Failed a Traumatized Child

  April 11, 2026

• Tracking Foster Youth Into Adulthood: What Leading States Already Know

  April 9, 2026

• What Foster Parents Can Do: Healing, Advocating, and Transforming Lives

  April 2, 2026

• Fosters and the Orphan Tax: How States Take Social Security from Foster Youth ________________________________________

  March 17, 2026

• America’s Child Protection Crisis: Last Week’s Most Alarming CPS Cases and Reforms

  March 14, 2026

• LGBTQ Children, Even More Miserable Foster Care, and Suicide

  March 13, 2026

• Child Abuse, Foster Care, and Youth Self-Harm and Suicide

  March 10, 2026

• Florida Child Abuse Reporting

  February 24, 2026

• Sweden vs United States: What Child Abuse Data Really Shows

  February 22, 2026

• LGBTQ Foster Care, Suicide, & Ground Truths (podcast #3 in KARA's foster care series)

  February 20, 2026

• Minnesota’s Children and Federal Policy: Local Pain For Children From National Decisions

  February 19, 2026

• Free and Discounted Resources for Foster Youth

  February 10, 2026

• Minnesota Family Preservation Law and Child Safety: When “Keep Families Together” Puts Children at Risk

  January 26, 2026

• Dissecting President Trump's Child Protection Executive Order (share this widely)

  January 11, 2026

2025 · 18 articles

• When Family Preservation and Deregulation Kill Children: Safe Passage Fatality Data

  December 18, 2025

• Free and Discounted Resources for Youth (+ Holiday Gifting)

  December 5, 2025

• What You Can Do Series - Foster Parents

  November 10, 2025

• Making Life More Miserable For the Most Vulnerable Children In America

  October 29, 2025

• The Importance of Foster Youth Rights (find your State here)

  October 22, 2025

• Sad Stories About Child Abuse in America Today

  October 21, 2025

• CASA Volunteers Save Money (Multiple State Investigation Results)

  October 2, 2025

• What's It Like Being A Foster Child In Child Protection? (podcast/video)

  September 11, 2025

• Join KARA's Child Advocacy Team (& make your community's children safe)

  August 25, 2025

• Struggles for Foster Care Children in Education (podcast #4 in Foster Series)

  July 19, 2025

• This year’s Budget, Bills, and Abused Children

  June 19, 2025

• Powerful Stories From The Atlantic Journal

  May 25, 2025

• KARA's Foster Care Podcast Series

  May 15, 2025

• Vulnerabilities in the Foster Care System (podcast)

  May 10, 2025

• Care Giver Retreat for MN Adoptive, Foster, & Kinship Caregivers

  April 28, 2025

• Ethan's Story

  March 10, 2025

• The War On Fosters

  January 23, 2025

• Reckless & ill-Advised Public Policy For Endangered Children

  January 19, 2025

2024 · 3 articles

• Fosters, Grandparents & Thanksgiving Hunger

  November 23, 2024

• Abolishing CPS Kills Children & Ruins Fosters

  November 13, 2024

• U.S. Child Welfare Articles May 8 & 9 2024 - (From the Children's Bureau)

  May 18, 2024

2023 · 3 articles

• Striking Foster Care Articles & Policies (find your state here)

  April 26, 2023

• Do Kids Count? (it depends on where you live)

  February 23, 2023

• Statistics, Books, Videos & Articles of, by & About Fostered and Adopted Children

  February 6, 2023

2022 · 10 articles

• Let's Stop Counties Stealing Money From Foster Children

  November 27, 2022

• LGBTQ Foster Care & Ground Truths

  October 26, 2022

• Saving Vulnerable Foster Children - Saving the Volunteer Guardian ad Litem Program

  October 4, 2022

• Foster Care vs Dog Care (Reimbursements)

  September 28, 2022

• Happy GrandParent's Day (volunteering, kinship & raising a grandchild)

  September 11, 2022

• Child Welfare Articles and Statistics For Week of 6.10.2022

  June 10, 2022

• Financial Literacy GRANT & Training for Foster Youth (free)

  May 19, 2022

• COVID & Child Abuse in Minnesota

  April 13, 2022

• COVID IMPACT ON AT RISK YOUTH

  March 14, 2022

• CHILD WELLBEING NEWS FEB 11-18 2022

  February 23, 2022

2021 · 10 articles

• Child Abuse Stories, Statistics & Politics In America Today

  November 28, 2021

• Human Rights and the Psychotropic Medicating of Children

  November 16, 2021

• Foster Care, Adoption & the Catholic Church

  November 15, 2021

• National Adoption Month (statistics, books, videos & articles of, by & about foster and adoptive children)

  November 9, 2021

• Foster Care Day Rates vs Dog Care Day Rates (it just doesn't seem right)

  September 25, 2021

• 58 Miles

  September 17, 2021

• Child Welfare Information (find your state here)

  July 9, 2021

• Aged Out Foster Youth Urged To Return (new federal benefits)

  April 1, 2021

• Aging Out of Foster Care In the Time of COVID

  January 8, 2021

• Havoc In Texas & Florida Child Protection Services

  January 5, 2021

2020 · 9 articles

• Holiday Best Wishes To Everyone & the Best Foster Child Blogs

  December 22, 2020

• Lawsuits and the Death of Two Year Old Arianna Hunziker

  November 20, 2020

• MN Foster Care During COVID

  August 19, 2020

• COVID and Foster Care

  June 16, 2020

• The Pandemic Impacting Child Abuse and Foster Care (state by state)

  June 10, 2020

• Foster Care News 2019

  March 6, 2020

• A Critical Look At Foster Care

  March 2, 2020

• Beat Up, Dead & Prostituted - Kids In CA's, Florida's Privatized Foster Care & Juvenile Systems (videos)

  February 3, 2020

• International Child Protection Stories, Statistics & Articles January 2020

  January 11, 2020

2019 · 9 articles

• Child Abuse & the LGBT Community

  December 9, 2019

• MN Child Abuse/Child Protection Articles, Statistics & Events 2019

  November 28, 2019

• Minnesota Child Abuse & Child Protection Sept 2019

  October 10, 2019

• Recent Stories, Statistics & Articles About Adoption & Foster Care

  September 29, 2019

• CASA Guardian Ad Litem Activity Around the Nation (where you live)

  August 1, 2019

• Recent Foster Stories & Statistics

  July 19, 2019

• June Child Abuse 2019 (find your state here)

  June 19, 2019

• Preteen Moms & Why (stories & statistics)

  March 26, 2019

• Minnesota's At Risk Children's News, Stories & Statistics Part I

  March 6, 2019

2018 · 13 articles

• California Child Protection Updates thru May 2017

  November 24, 2018

• Only Evil Governments Torture Other People's (Immigrant) Children

  September 11, 2018

• How Church & State Bigotry Hurts Abused Children

  August 30, 2018

• Catholic Charities of Boston vs. The Vatican (from 2012)

  August 29, 2018

• Articles, Stories & Statistics About Adoption and Foster Care for June 2018

  July 20, 2018

• CASA Guardian ad Litem News for Summer 2018

  July 12, 2018

• Child Welfare State By State for May 2018 (8)

  July 4, 2018

• Child Welfare by State (statistics & news April 2018 (5 - foster child)

  May 29, 2018

• Child Welfare by State (statistics & news April 2018 (1)

  May 17, 2018

• Child Well Being State by State March 2018 (X)

  April 25, 2018

• Sad Stories Feb 2018 Part VI (foster care stories and statistics)

  March 22, 2018

• Friends of Hennepin & Ramsey County Foster Children

  February 10, 2018

• January Sad Stories 2018 Part I (find your state here)

  February 1, 2018

2017 · 22 articles

• November Sad Stories Part I (find child abuse stories in your state here)

  December 3, 2017

• America's Adoption Issues (300 new stories & articles)

  December 2, 2017

• October Sad Stories 2017 Part I

  October 31, 2017

• Foster Mom Charged With Breaking Bones of 7-Week Old Foster Boy (thank you Brandon Stahl & Star Tribune)

  October 25, 2017

• September Sad Stories 2017 Part II

  October 7, 2017

• July 2017 Sad Stories Part II

  August 4, 2017

• A Brief History of Four Year Olds and Prozac

  July 4, 2017

• CASA guardian ad-Litem News Feb thru May 2017 Part II (be a voice for children)

  June 16, 2017

• CASA guardian ad-Litem News Feb -May 2017 Part I

  June 14, 2017

• Sad Stories April 2017 Part II

  May 2, 2017

• Sad Stories April 2017 Part I

  April 20, 2017

• Florida Child Protection News for March 2017

  April 19, 2017

• Sad Stories March 2017 Part IV (child protection news from around the nation)

  April 1, 2017

• Sad Stories March 2017 Part III

  April 1, 2017

• It Cant Happen Here

  March 17, 2017

• March 2017 Sad Stories Part I

  March 12, 2017

• February 2017 Sad Stories Part IV

  March 4, 2017

• Social Work (from the smartest person in the room - Dee Wilson from the Casey Foundation)

  March 2, 2017

• February Sad Stories 2017 Part I

  February 19, 2017

• CASA Guardian ad-Litem News Around the Nation October/November 2016

  February 2, 2017

• Florida Child Protection News for January 2017

  January 30, 2017

• Dear Elementary School Teacher (I'm sorry for being such a problem)

  January 10, 2017

2016 · 36 articles

• December Sad Stories Part II

  December 31, 2016

• Minnesota At Risk Children's News December 2016

  December 31, 2016

• December 2016 Sad Stories Part 1

  December 14, 2016

• Minnesota At Risk Children's News November 2016

  December 4, 2016

• November 2016 Sad Stories Part II

  December 2, 2016

• November 2016 Sad Stories Part I

  November 19, 2016

• CASA guardian ad-Litem News Around the Nation for September 2016

  October 8, 2016

• August 2016 Sad Stories (Part 3 through August 31)

  September 21, 2016

• CASA guardian ad Litem News & Stories for August 2016

  September 17, 2016

• August Sad Stories 2016 (part II)

  August 22, 2016

• Let Me Show You The Money

  August 20, 2016

• August Sad Stories (part 1)

  August 19, 2016

• CASA Guardian ad Litem News From Around the Nation July 2016

  August 13, 2016

• I’ll Be There Next Year Too (CASA Cares Golf Tournament for Foster Children)

  August 2, 2016

• Why Schools Fail (another year of bad results)

  July 31, 2016

• July 2016 Sad Stories (part 1)

  July 16, 2016

• June 2016 Sad Stories (part 2)

  July 1, 2016

• CASA guardian ad-Litem News Around the Nation for June 2016

  June 25, 2016

• Minnesota At Risk Children's News June 2016

  June 25, 2016

• CASA guardian ad-Litem News April & May 2016

  June 19, 2016

• Texas Child Protection News For April

  June 3, 2016

• New York Child Protection News April - May 2016

  June 1, 2016

• New Jersey Child Protection News October 2015 through April 2016

  May 12, 2016

• Sad Stories California - March & April 2016

  May 7, 2016

• Child Abuse & Child Protection Around the World (April 2016)

  April 30, 2016

• Yesterday's Child Protection News (state's & governments needing special scrutiny for failing their youngest citizens)

  April 20, 2016

• Colorado Child Protection New March 2016

  April 12, 2016

• New York Child Protection News Feb - March 2016

  April 12, 2016

• CASA Guardian ad-Litem News Through March 2016

  April 7, 2016

• March Sad Stories (2016 KARA reporting)

  March 16, 2016

• Child Protection - What Needs To Change

  March 8, 2016

• Pennsylvania Child Protection News For January & February 2016

  March 1, 2016

• February Sad Stories (2016 KARA reporting)

  February 26, 2016

• CASA guardian ad-Litem News Around The Nation 1.1.16-2.13.16

  February 14, 2016

• New York Child Protection News December 2015- January 2016

  February 12, 2016

• Pennsylvania Child Protection News November 2015

  February 6, 2016

2015 · 19 articles

• New York Child Protection News October - November 2015

  December 12, 2015

• Sad Stories November 2015

  November 26, 2015

• CASA guardian ad-Litem News Around The Nation

  November 12, 2015

• Sad Stories October 2015

  October 31, 2015

• Child Death and Child Abuse Articles (for September 2015 – find your state/country here)

  September 25, 2015

• Child Death and Child Abuse Articles (for August 2015 - find your state/country here)

  August 19, 2015

• CASA guardian ad-Litem News (find your state here) August 2015

  August 2, 2015

• NO DEMAND, NO SUPPLY

  July 30, 2015

• Child Death and Child Abuse Articles (for July 2015 - find your state/country here)

  July 26, 2015

• Child Abuse & Child Welfare Stories For June 2015

  July 5, 2015

• Child Welfare News Through June 9, 2015 - Sad Stories - Glad Stories (15 days)

  June 10, 2015

• Child Protection News Gathered Nationally (find your state here)

  May 31, 2015

• Child Protection Stories Around the Nation (find your state here)

  May 6, 2015

• KARA Child Abuse Reporting This Spring (March, April, May)

  May 6, 2015

• Help KARA Do Something About Drugging Foster Kids (invitation to action)

  March 24, 2015

• Sad Children Stories From February

  February 28, 2015

• Important Points By Brandon Stahl (Star Tribune) Today On Pope County

  February 28, 2015

• The State Of Child Protection in Texas (655 under-reported deaths of abused children)

  January 25, 2015

• Falling Through the Cracks (NYTimes) 786 Children Die While in Child Protective Services

  January 19, 2015

2014 · 18 articles

• Child Abuse Stories Across the Nation

  November 10, 2014

• Child Protection News - Your State Here (Texas and Florida are tied once more)

  October 19, 2014

• It's Worse In Texas

  September 23, 2014

• This Week's At Risk Children's News

  August 22, 2014

• Most Interesting Child Abuse Articles Of The Week

  July 25, 2014

• Powerful Stories From The Atlantic Journal (here's a preview)

  July 24, 2014

• CASA Guardian ad-Litem News (updates from around the nation)

  June 22, 2014

• Child Welfare In The News (find your state here - some international)

  June 5, 2014

• Children In The News (update)

  May 13, 2014

• Another Happy CASA Story

  May 1, 2014

• Great Discussion On Privatized Foster Care In Georgia (Linked In)

  March 14, 2014

• Children In The News - read about your state here (thank you child welfare.gov)

  February 27, 2014

• 70 Child Abuse Deaths In California's Child Protection System

  February 20, 2014

• Another Failed State (no protection from child rape and no foster parents in Montana)

  February 17, 2014

• In Whose Best Interest (MN courts returned this child to an abusive father 6 times)

  February 9, 2014

• Child Abuse In Your State (recent news from across the nation - thank you Child Welfare in the News)

  January 26, 2014

• Register For Beyond Consequences Training & Support MN Adopt

  January 6, 2014

• What We Can Learn From Kentucky (kinship rules)

  January 2, 2014

2013 · 14 articles

• Bad Day In The News For Children In Need Of Protection

  December 3, 2013

• Tracking America's Most At Risk Children (through the media, the states & CASA)

  October 3, 2013

• Zero Kids Waiting September Newsletter

  September 16, 2013

• CASA & GUARDIAN AD - LITEM NEWS (for August)

  August 29, 2013

• CHILD WELFARE NEWS STATE BY STATE (for August)

  August 29, 2013

• Massachusetts Child Abuse Up - 30% Fewer Petitions To Remove Children From Abusive Homes

  August 12, 2013

• Child Welfare In The News (find your state - nation here) 100+ articles

  August 8, 2013

• Zero Kids Waiting (lifelong nurturing families for children needing permanency)

  July 15, 2013

• Connect To CASA's (Court Appointed Special Advocate's) Around The Nation (300)

  June 12, 2013

• Camp Out For Essex County CASA

  May 19, 2013

• The Institution of Abusing Children In Georgia

  March 30, 2013

• Zero Kids Waiting

  March 18, 2013

• Total Disaster In Tennessee (NV, TN, CA, & TX in Trouble Too) Disappearing Watchdogs Around the Nation

  February 4, 2013

• New York Saves $666 per State Ward Child (Destroying Children & An Important CASA Program)

  January 27, 2013

2012 · 5 articles

• Focus On Texas, California, & Florida Child Welfare

  December 19, 2012

• Another Asset For Protecting Children; The Law

  December 3, 2012

• Make Sure All Minnesota Children Have A Loving Home

  November 13, 2012

• A Great Minnesota Network: Minnesota Adoption Resource Network

  October 15, 2012

• This Doesn't Change What's Wrong In Kentucky (and elsewhere) For Abused & Neglected Children

  May 1, 2012

2011 · 5 articles

• Fewer Families Adopting In Denver (Agency Closing After 22 Years)

  December 28, 2011

• Occupy Wall Street For America's Children

  October 29, 2011

• Mike's Next Keynote Talk; Indiana Foster Care & Adoption

  October 6, 2011

• Nebraska's Privatized Child & Family Welfare Collapse

  October 3, 2011

• World's Best Foster Child Blog

  September 11, 2011

2010 · 11 articles

• Files Released On Foster Teen Who Committed Suicide

  November 6, 2010

• Response to Star Tribune Article

  September 12, 2010

• Practical Strategies for Helping Troubled Adopted Children with Complex Histories: Focus On Anger Issues with Dr. Richard J. Delaney

  August 11, 2010

• The Evolution of CASA volunteering

  July 24, 2010

• Adoptees Have Answers New Website Launch

  May 14, 2010

• America's Children, Mental Health, & Society

  May 7, 2010

• Adoptees Have Answers…and lots of questions

  April 11, 2010

• California's Child Protection Problems Grow

  February 6, 2010

• Georgia Child Protection: Too Many Children Too Few Resources

  January 27, 2010

• A Program Worth Repeating

  January 23, 2010

• Child Well Being Network (a model)

  January 13, 2010

2009 · 5 articles

• 14 police calls to foster home led up to near-death

  July 4, 2009

• Nevada Pays for Lost 2 Year Old Foster Child

  June 27, 2009

• Amy Sherman's Blog for Florida's At Risk Children

  June 21, 2009

• FORGOTTEN CHILDREN RALLY STATE CAPITAL

  May 13, 2009

• Wisconsin officials have agreed to an aggressive new plan aimed at fixing persistent problems

  April 27, 2009

2007 · 1 articles

• By Definition

  July 4, 2007

2005 · 1 articles

• Child Summit

  September 22, 2005