When most people hear “foster youth,” they picture someone troubled, angry and doomed to fail. I know this because I was a ...

Hayden, who is nonbinary and gender fluid, says whenever they wanted to wear boy clothes, play with boy toys or express ...

Ollie Super has moved in and out of cancer treatment since she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma as a toddler in foster care. Now 8, the second grader is dealing with it again. Her cancer came back ...

California now has about 18,000 fewer children in foster care than five years ago, with major declines in LA County and new reforms to protect families. KuznetsovDmitry Getty Images Today, ...

LARGO, Fla. — Four years ago, Family Support Services took over foster care in Pinellas and Pasco Counties. They came in at a time when the foster care system across the Bay Area was in disarray.

In 2025, one in three children placed in foster care was sent to a different region, sometimes hundreds of miles away, a ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Studies estimate that up to 90% of children in foster care have experienced trauma, ...

When extended family are left to raise children without the financial lifeline foster families receive, where do they turn ...

Several states are changing custody laws to prevent children from entering foster care when their parents are detained in ...

There are now more than 12,000 children in Missouri's foster care system, according to the most recent totals from the ...

When extended family are left to raise children without the financial lifeline foster families receive, where do they turn ...