Fla. DCF releases 1st foster care report card – Florida Wires – MiamiHerald.com
Private contractors that receive hundreds of millions of dollars a year to oversee foster care in Florida scored poorly in ensuring proper medical, immunization and dental services for children, but ranked about average in most other areas, according to a report card issued Wednesday for the first time by the state child welfare agency.
Worried about the large number of Latino children taken away from parents and placed in California foster care, a host of state politicians Friday took over a church hall once occupied by farmworker leader Cesar Chavez to hear answers to the problem.
New memoir depicts journey to overcome childhood spent in foster care | PR NewsChannel
“Foster Me Up” (ISBN 1466216158), a memoir by Rhonda Zimmer, tells the story of her and her twin sister Robin’s journey through the foster care system to a meaningful adult life.
Helping L.A.‘s foster care system grow up – latimes.com
A new California law will allow young people to receive support until the age of 21, rather than forcing them to fend for themselves at 18.
EDITORIAL: No harm in foster care summit
A National Public Radio series on Native American foster care in South Dakota has prompted the Interior Department’s Office of Indian Affairs to request a summit between federal, state and tribal officials.
Discussions to continue on proposed legal settlement over children’s care | NewsOK.com
Oklahoma leaders failed to reach a decision Wednesday whether to accept a proposed settlement in a federal class-action lawsuit over the Department of Human Services’ care of foster children. But talks are continuing.
WABE: Georgia’s Foster Care System Improves
10 years ago, the foster care system in Fulton and DeKalb Counties was so bad; it triggered a lawsuit from a national advocacy organization. Now, the same group, Children’s Rights, says the system has substantially improved. The organization recently released its progress report.