Foster care facts

Infographic on foster care adoption. Who adopts from foster care. Do you have to be married? Have a stay at home parent? Wealthy?

Here are some of the most recent statistics on youth in the foster care system

Creating a Family strengthens foster, adoptive, and kinship families and the professionals who support them by creating expert-based, trauma-informed resources, community support, and training.

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I finally got around to seeing Instant Family and I thought it was a good blend of accuracy and humor in portraying what foster-adoptive ...

Some 14,380 Michigan children are in foster care on any given day. Here are the steps on how you could provide a child with a safe home — and a path to being a productive adult! Please repin in honor of Foster Care Awareness Month. #BEAFOSTERPARENT

I have been meaning to post this for awhile now, I'm sorry it's taken me so long! This is extremely helpful to use with first time fos...

My eyes have probably seen these multi-colored state maps a thousand times over the past week or so. I was fairly vocal on social media about this election, but even I finally got to the point where I. am. done. with it all. I even contemplated staying off of Facebook for a while, but, I mean, what kind of person do you think I am? I am of the opinion that, no matter who you voted for, we should all just share a collective vat of wine and never talk about parties and swing states and…

Read our weekly blog at Child Crisis Arizona. 18 is a milestone, for a large majority of youth in foster care, turning 18 means aging out of the system.

Infographic from PBS Point of View report Tough Love on child welfare and foster care.

In a recently published position paper, the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) has issued a position paper that targets the special care Deaf children require in foster care. According to the N…

💡 #FactFriday: Children in foster care suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at twice the rate of returning war veterans. This fact is alarming, and we are challenging you to support us on our mission to relieve some of the barriers that children in the foster care system may face. * * * #FelixOrganization #FosterYouth #FosterCareSystem #Community #Support #FosterCare #Family #FelixFamily #GiveBack #SupportChildren #Love #Joy #Fun #BetterTogether

The foster care system is a relatively recent solution to the problem of parents being unable to care for their children. Separate and very different from adoption, foster care is usually meant to be a temporary situation. Find out how the system works and how people become foster parents.

15 Helpful Ways to Support Foster Care Without Being Foster Parents

Since the 2007 killing of Baby P (pictured), there has been a huge surge in the number of youngsters being removed from their families by social workers.

The foster care system is a relatively recent solution to the problem of parents being unable to care for their children. Separate and very different from adoption, foster care is usually meant to be a temporary situation. Find out how the system works and how people become foster parents.

Most people don’t know a “foster kid.” To them, perception is reality. FosterMore is working to combat the negative stereotypes too often associated with youth in foster care by sharing stories of individual success and spotlighting the potential of foster youth. Hollywood can help. Through the power of your story telling and the size of your audience, you can help inform opinions and shape attitudes to support this population.