Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo by Getty Images. If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis ...

Elliott Hinkle experienced depression and suicidal thoughts even before entering the foster care system in Casper, Wyoming, at age 15. At the time, Hinkle, who is transgender, struggled with their ...

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

After multiple critical reports and the suicide death of a 16-year-old foster girl in Baltimore last month, Maryland legislators grilled social services officials on Monday for failures in how they ...

The report, which was conducted through the Louisiana Legislative Auditor's Office, reviewed complaints made by families and evaluated services provided by the agency.

A new report reveals foster children, not charged with crimes, are jailed in some states due to a lack of placements.

Ollie Super has moved in and out of cancer treatment since she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma as a toddler in foster care.

Federal oversight over Michigan's foster care and child welfare system began in 2008. The state of Michigan is trying to end federal oversight of its foster care system. The monitoring began in 2008 ...

Per state data, Richland County posted the highest rate of foster placement moves since monitoring began in 2016.

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