Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 36,000 New Mexico children were raised by their grandparents or other next-of-kin in 2023. (Photo courtesy of New Mexico ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's a startling number -- about 22% of San Francisco's unhoused population were once in the foster care system, according to a city report. That's what makes the work of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 5-year-old girl plays on a climbing wall at a playground in Illinois in 2023. Over the past decade, states have worked steadily ...

COLUMBIA, SC (WSPA) — South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster was joined by South Carolina Department of Social Services (DSS) Director Michael Leach, members of the General Assembly, non-profit ...

Relatives across the U.S. are raising millions of children, often with little support. What happens when kinship families fill gaps in the system?

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Kinship care is an arrangement where children are placed with relatives or close family friends if their biological parents are unable to care for them. GREELEY, Colo. — The state of Colorado has ...

AUSTIN — Lisa and Ashley Mitchell faced an uncertain future when the grandmother raising them died. Thrust into the foster care system, they could have bounced like many children from placement to ...

A new website and other needed upgraded technologies will be created and purchased by the Woodland Community College Foster & Kinship Care Education program due to a major grant awarded by the Yocha ...

Nearly 3 million grandparents across the country are caring for their children’s children, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Often they have no formal custody arrangement, no legal guardianship and ...