Article: First two years vital for kids' cognitive development, IQ

Article: Rethinking foster care.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Clinical Psychiatry News;  December 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......shelters. Anyone even vaguely familiar with foster care understands that it is a revolving door, or...children and adolescents spend several years in a foster care system that itself is unstable. The state, in...recent research showing that children enrolled in foster care fare worse ...

Article: Foster Care: Does It Deliver? ; A New Statewide Report Suggests Lancaster County Children In Foster Care Languish Too Long In The System Before Finding Secure, Permanent Homes.
Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA;  December 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ......of stay for a child in foster care is 19 months, according to a new report...of 5,560 children in foster care for more than 17 months had not been freed for...too, children remain in foster care additional months if a parent loses their...

Article: Foster care found beset by neglect: National report outlines ways to reform system.(Culture, Et Cetera)
The Washington Times;  August 8, 1997 ;     694 words ......asked that the number of foster care children adopted or...children were adopted from foster care last year. About two-thirds of foster-care children eventually...change the $12 billion foster-care system, which gets 40...children get stuck in foster care ...

Article: National Foster Care Month Campaign Launched For May; Hundreds of Ways to 'Change a Lifetime' for Youth Living in Foster Care
U.S. Newswire;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......the children living in foster care in the U.S. are 10 years...youth will "age out" of foster care this year, most of whom...services. When they leave foster care, they will be vulnerable...children of color in the foster care system (60 percent...and youth living in ...

Article: D.C. ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE PROGRAM REVISIONS:SAM BROWNBACK
Congressional Testimony;  February 12, 1998 ;     700+ words ......DC foster care-- that is, after growing up in foster care, they turn 18 and are turned out of foster care and onto the streets. In 1994, 67% of the children who left foster care, left because they turned 18 years old. In other...a tragedy. Allowing thousands to languish ...

Article: Foster Care Month Spotlights Year-Round Needs of 523,000 U.S. Children; Public Urged to Help Change a Lifetime for Children in Foster Care
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...

Article: National Foster Care Month, spotlight shines on children and teens
Miami Times;  May 17, 2005 ;     448 words ......if you are one of the 523,000 children in foster care in the U.S. or one of the foster families...Inc. to serve the Miami-Dade community's foster care needs. We join with other foster care providers in celebrating National Foster...

Article: 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...

Article: Providing health care for children in foster care: a role for advanced practice nurses.
Pediatric Nursing;  September 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......Patterns of Children in Foster Care (White & Benedict...found that children in foster care have many and varied...histories of long-term foster care placements exhibited...groups of children in foster care during 1982-1983 in...202 children placed in foster ...

Article: Foster Care Month
News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL);  May 12, 2001 ;     283 words ......thousands of Americans celebrate "National Foster Care Month" -- a time to honor and thank...choose to help our nation's children in foster care grow and achieve their full potential...of 18, nearly eight are currently in foster care -- up from nearly five a decade ago...

Article: Second Chance promotes Foster Care Month
New Pittsburgh Courier;  May 2, 2007 ;     507 words ......campaign to recognize May as National Foster Care Awareness Month, in an effort to educate the public about foster care in America and about their organization...are 513,000 American children in foster care because they have lost or been displaced...

Article: DIRECTOR SHERMAN KICKS OFF FOSTER CARE APPRECIATION MONTH AT MIDWEST FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTIVE ASSOCIATION
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 1, 2006 ;     293 words ......Gary Sherman visited the Midwest Foster Care and Adoptive Association. Director...recognized and celebrated the Midwest Foster Care and Adoptive Association's contribution...foster families. "The Midwest Foster Care and Adoptive Association is a...

Article: May is Foster Care Month
Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  May 3, 2002 ;     272 words ......and a new family every few months. Most of the time you are...of the 588,000 children in foster care in the U.S. or one of the...May is designated National Foster Care Month -- a time when the spotlight...welfare professional who make foster care work. The foster ...

Article: WAKE SUPPORTS FOSTER CARE MONTH
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 6, 2008 ;     305 words ......County Human Services will celebrate National Foster Care Month by holding a Foster Care Symposium on Tuesday, May 20, 2008, at 7 p...Road, Raleigh. There are 513,000 children in foster care in the United States, and relatives other...