A year and a half after L.A. County closed down its 24-hour "welcome centers" for foster youth with nowhere else to go, the temporary shelters that replaced them fall short of a long-term solution for placing teens in permanent homes.

National Foster Care Month may be coming to an end, current and former foster children will always need our help. Here, a former foster youth tells us how we can get started.

I finally got around to seeing Instant Family and I thought it was a good blend of accuracy and humor in portraying what foster-adoptive ...

A series of touching images show children holding chalkboards stating how many years they have been in foster care. One child had to wait nearly seven years before being adopted

Someone recently asked me what fostering was like. I immediately said, "Foster care is harder than I ever knew. And the blessings are bigger...

Wish list from Oklahoma foster child