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. About 36,000 New Mexico children were raised by their grandparents or other next-of-kin in 2023. (Photo courtesy of New Mexico ...

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 ...

Rearing a child is hard work, physically, emotionally and financially. Ask any parent or guardian. There is no down time, no vacation, from parental responsibility. If you’re lucky, you have an ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The number of grandparents and older adults raising children continues to climb, according to the Area Office on Aging (AOoA). In light of this increase, the organization has developed ...

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 ...

The Kinship Care Program run by the Child Care Coordinating Council of the North Country could cease to be should the state budget pass as now proposed. "Depending on what kind of money we get, I ...

Most have heard excerpts of a short story telling of a small boy picking up sea stars trapped on the beach as the tide receded and how he tossed them back toward water. When questioned by a passerby ...

Angels Foster Care has started Family & Friends Together (FFT), a new kinship care program that provides intensive, trauma-informed multigenerational support to kinship families caring for foster ...

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 ...

Help is on the way for Northern New Mexicans raising their relatives’ children. But some say the aid is only a start. The New Mexico Aging and Long-Term Services Department is accepting applications ...