Article: DIRECTOR SHERMAN KICKS OFF FOSTER CARE APPRECIATION MONTH AT MIDWEST FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTIVE ASSOCIATION

Article: MIDWEST FOSTER CARE, ADOPTION ASSOCIATION ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... School of Social Work are sponsoring the sixth annual Midwest Foster Care and Adoption Association Conference on Oct. 14 and ... parking, lunch and one evening's attendance at the Midwest Foster Care and Adoption Association's dinner auction. Virginia ...

Article: The academic experiences of African American males in an urban ...
Journal of Social Studies Research;  October 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... study, African American males living in foster care. Past studies have shown that African ... general and African American males in foster care in particular are lagging behind other ... posturing. African American males in foster care face similar impediments to academic ...

Article: Foster Care Report Targets Courts, Financing for ...
Yakima Herald-Republic;  May 18, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... 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 ...

Article: 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 ...

Article: Foster care: casey program is a good ...
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 ... more than 800,000 children were in foster care in 2005, and about 500,000 were ...

Article: FOSTER-CARE RATE HIGH STATE SECOND NATIONALLY FOR ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  August 8, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... children processed through the state's foster-care system in 1995 was 13,230. The state ... second-highest percentage of kids in foster care, according to a study released Thursday ... has the most children per capita in foster care, with 17 kids per 1,000, the study ...

Article: FOSTER-CARE LIMITS WOULD HELP ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  February 2, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... He is proposing to limit payments for foster care. Who would benefit from such a proposal ... s hard for me to tell you how bad foster care is," Boyd said in testimony before ... at least half the children now in foster care could be returned safely to their own ...