FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Volunteers are being sought in nearly half of Kentucky's counties to review cases of children in the foster care system, officials said.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A House committee on Monday approved a bill that would create an independent agency to oversee Kansas' foster care system.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The top child welfare official in Kansas said Wednesday her agency has tightened financial oversight of one of the state's largest foster care management providers, saying she...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska has agreed to pay millions more to a troubled Kansas-based foster care contractor that was rapidly running out of money after significantly underbidding the company...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge approved on Thursday a settlement that aims to fix problems in the child welfare system in Kansas.

U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree said in his ruling...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services allowed six foster children and others across the state to be given psychotropic drugs without appropriate safeguards or...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire has “unnecessarily warehoused" foster care teens in institutional and group care facilities instead of with families and has not acted in their best interests,...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island has received a nearly $95,000 grant to help prevent youth homelessness and housing instability, issues exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, officials...

SOMERSET, Ky. (AP) — More than $5 million in federal grants have been awarded to six projects in southern and eastern Kentucky, officials said.

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona's child welfare agency has agreed to boost behavioral and health services for children in foster care and limit use of group homes for those children to settle a lawsuit...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A state-run web portal that signed up hundreds of thousands of people for health coverage before its dismantling was relaunched Monday by Kentucky's governor, who gave it an...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana is the top state in the nation for increasing the number of children adopted from foster care, according to state and federal officials.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A new state audit says Oregon is failing to make sure vulnerable children and families are receiving needed mental health care through the Oregon Health Plan, even as...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky has been awarded nearly $1 million in federal money to develop a program that will educate teens and young adults on how to be a responsible parent.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge in Texas said Friday that she is “concerned" about the high rate of coronavirus infections in the state's troubled foster care system.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The head of the Kansas agency responsible for foster care in the state told lawmakers improvements have already been made in response to a scathing federal report and the...

The number of children in the U.S. foster care system has dropped for a second year in a row, and a record number of children in the child welfare system were able to find adoptive homes,...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 33-year-old Lincoln man has been found guilty of taking two teenage girls to Colorado and Iowa to have sex for money.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A new program will launch this month for young people who are transitioning out of foster care, Kentucky officials said.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Virtual community forums to discuss ways to improve Kentucky's foster care system are being held through the end of July, officials said.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly issued an executive order on Tuesday that will require the state to track foster children’s progress in school, shortly after having vetoed a...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered the state’s Department of Health and Human Services to no longer work with a company that provided staffing for a facility where a...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The number of children entering foster care in Minnesota has dropped significantly since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, yet the number of inquiries about becoming a...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico has reached a settlement with foster youth and their advocates that will allow for the creation of a trauma response system for all children in state custody,...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — House lawmakers must approve a bill that would require Kansas to develop annual academic report cards on all children in foster care because few graduate from high school on...

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A former employee of an emergency foster care program in Great Falls has been given a deferred sentence after hitting a 7-year-old girl in her care in January...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Foster parents may soon get more money for adopting children under a measure passed by the House of Delegates Tuesday aimed at alleviating West Virginia's overburdened...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee has become the latest state to assure continued taxpayer funding of faith-based foster care and adoption agencies even if those organizations exclude LGBT...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced a plan Tuesday to offer up to 12 weeks of annual paid family leave for state workers who become parents, have to care for a family member...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's foster care system plans to restructure its evaluation process for complaints of abuse or neglect involving school employees, according to department...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Child advocates who filed a federal lawsuit alleging West Virginia's overwhelmed foster care system has failed to protect children have asked the judge to reject a motion...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A proposal that would require Minnesota employers to extend paid leave in response to a new child, a close relative’s serious illness or a military family member being...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Dozens of young people who aged out of the Kansas foster care system are receiving holiday present through a state agency's gift drive.