Foster care system in need of reform

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  May 23, 2004 ;     700+ words ...WASHINGTON -- Listening to the stories of foster care changes you forever. A foster parent...love for the children she adopted from foster care. A mother cries, recounting how she...college student who spent six years in foster care speaks of its legacy of insecurity...

To fix foster care: reform courts, funding.(OPINION)

The Christian Science Monitor;  May 19, 2004 ;     700+ words ......WASHINGTON -- Listening to the stories of foster care changes you forever. A foster parent...love for the children she adopted from foster care. A mother cries, recounting how she...college student who spent six years in foster care speaks of its legacy of insecurity...

In the system: one reader tells us what it's like to be in foster care....

CosmoGirl!;  June 1, 2002 ;     634 words ...Giselle 23, Broklyn, NY I went into foster care when I was 16. I came to the United States to escape...me things like What did you do to get put into foster care? or You're in foster care? You don't look like someone who's in foster care...

National Foster Care Month Campaign Launched For May; Hundreds of Ways to...

U.S. Newswire;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- May is National Foster Care Month ( http://www.fostercaremonth.org...518,000 children and youth living in foster care in the U.S. A partnership of 14 national...Casey Family Programs, launched National Foster Care Month and the "Change a Lifetime" campaign...

Foster Care Report Targets Courts, Financing for Improvements

Yakima Herald-Republic;  May 18, 2004 ;     593 words ......the making, but today a national foster care advocacy group will release its...how to overhaul the country's foster care system. The report is the most...comprehensive analysis of the nation's foster care system ever done, said the commission...

Human Costs of Foster Care: Pew Commission Releases First Report

U.S. Newswire;  February 18, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care, Voices from the Inside, foster...system that is overly reliant on foster care. The structure of federal financing...contributes to prolonged stays in foster care by limiting states' ability to...

Foster care: casey program is a good model.(PREVENTION IN ACTION)

Clinical Psychiatry News;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...The foster care system in the United States was designed...for many children and adolescents in foster care, the short-term solution becomes a...more than 800,000 children were in foster care in 2005, and about 500,000 were in...

Commission recommends foster care improvements

Charleston Gazette;  May 22, 2004 ;     536 words ...A half million children find themselves in foster care on any given day in the United States, members of the Pew Commission on Foster Care report. The children can be in foster care for an average of three years. They are placed there...

Foster Care Adoption Rate Rises in Virginia

The Washington Post;  December 25, 2003 ;     700+ words ......reduce the time children spend in foster care and to boost adoptions, Virginia...raised its rate of adoptions from foster care by 66 percent, according to a...nearly tripled its adoptions from foster care, and Maryland, which more than...

Foster Care Adoption Rate Rises in Va.; Performance Up 66%

The Washington Post;  October 23, 2003 ;     700+ words ......the time that children spend in foster care and to boost adoptions, Virginia...raised its rate of adoptions from foster care by 66 percent, according to a...nearly tripled its adoptions from foster care, and Maryland, which more than...

Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care Releases Sweeping...

U.S. Newswire;  May 18, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care today released far- reaching recommendations to overhaul the nation's foster care system. The Commission, a national...assessment of two key aspects of the foster care system: a federal financing structure...

D.C. ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE PROGRAM REVISIONS:SAM BROWNBACK

Congressional Testimony;  February 12, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Sam Brownback Reforming Adoption and Foster Care in the District of Columbia February...s first hearing on the adoption and foster care system in the nation's capital. I also...permanent family. The adoption and foster care system in the District of Columbia is...

America's Untold Foster Care Story: 513,000 U.S. Youth in Search of a...

PR Newswire;  April 30, 2008 ;     700+ words ...National Foster Care Month Calls On Caring Adults to Help...PRNewswire/ -- On May 1st, National Foster Care Month kicks off its 20th annual awareness...America's half a million youth in foster care. This effort, presented in partnership...

Foster Care Month Spotlights Year-Round Needs of 523,000 U.S. Children;...

U.S. Newswire;  April 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ......child welfare agencies, advocates, experts, and foster care alumni will launch a national campaign in May...positive difference in the lives of young people in foster care. National Foster Care Month serves as a platform for connecting more...

Rep. Cardoza Introduces Resolution Recognizing National Foster Care Month

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 28, 2007 ;     700+ words ......H.Res. 263) "recognizing National Foster Care Month as an opportunity for Congress to improve the foster care system throughout the U.S." The resolution...follows:H.Res. 263Recognizing National Foster Care Month as an opportunity for Congress...