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 system found to be lacking Federal commission says states need...

Oakland Tribune;  May 19, 2004 ;     700+ words ......million American children in foster care, one-fifth of whom are in California...Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care said that to address the problem...for how long children remain in foster care, the federal government should...

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 funding questioned

New York Beacon, The;  May 26, 2004 ;     509 words ......studying what it calls the nation's broken foster care system wants to take away the financial...money for every poor child placed in foster care. One consequence, critics say, has been...1983, the number of children placed in foster care tripled nationwide, to more than 574...

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 kids need help

Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  May 31, 2002 ;     331 words ...Foster care often conjures up an image of young children...call home. Indeed, the ultimate goal of foster care is to connect children with good foster...reunion with birth parents. As we recognize Foster Care Month this month, let us include in our...

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...

Report Finds 41% Jump in Teens 'Aging Out' of Foster Care, Facing the...

U.S. Newswire;  May 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ......number of young people leaving the U.S. foster care system without a permanent family is...although the total number of children in foster care has decreased, the number who "age out...than 165,000 young people aged out of foster care between 1998 and 2005 -- nearly 25,000...