It's complicated. It's complex. And it--meaning foster care--centers around concurrent family planning. As a social work intern, I spent one year training at a locked psychiatric unit for teenagers.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For parents with children placed in foster care, reunification can takes moths to years, and when it does happen it's an emotional ...

It's complicated. It's complex. And it--meaning foster care--centers around concurrent family planning. As a social work intern, I spent one year training at a locked psychiatric unit for teenagers.

Lionel scooped up his daughter, Imari, and planted a kiss on the 1-year-old's chubby cheek, then carried her to the car that would take the baby and her brothers away from him and back to their foster ...

Adoption Option Inc. Child Welfare Organization is proud to announce that two of its team members were featured during ...

Saint Francis Ministries and and several community partners came together Wednesday to celebrate family reunification.

June is Reunification Month, a great time to celebrate those success stories while continuing to strengthen and empower families. Reunification and family preservation are two big issues that the West ...

They don’t like to talk about it, but after a few years in the trenches, people who work in child welfare often wonder if they aren’t part of the problem. The data about foster care is pretty much ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Families who successfully reunited with their children after involvement in the foster care system were recognized Wednesday ...

Discussions of foster care focus almost exclusively on the needs of the children entering — or lingering in — the foster care system. But every child has parents and a family, in some sense or another ...

In most Missouri counties, children linger in foster care longer than the federal standard, according to data compiled by the state social services agency. Under national standards, at least 35% of ...