foster care

Two U.S. Senators from the Pacific Northwest are investigating abuse at facilities that run treatment programs for children, including the center where a 9-year-old girl placed in Oregon foster care was drugged and another where a 16-year-old child was restrained for so long he suffocated to death.

California counties regularly take the Social Security benefits of foster youth who are disabled or whose parents have died. Advocates say it amounts to children paying for their own foster care.

Federal regulators look to regulate treatment centers that house vulnerable kids. Uvea Spezza-Lopin’s story illustrates why.

Problems in Oregon's foster care system in recent years demonstrated the severe shortage of places to house children who have been removed from their…

Oregon has long lacked an adequate number of foster homes for all of the children in foster care. And after revelations of children sleeping in hotel…

Oregon's struggling child foster care system took another hit recently. The Audit Division of the Secretary of State's Office released an audit that…

Oregon's foster care system for children needs a lot of work, there's general agreement on that. A lawsuit against the state revealed issues caused by…

The flow of children into foster care ebbs and flows, and it is flowing now, in a big way. The number of children who have entered the foster care system…

The child foster care system can't seem to stay out of the news for long. The very concept of foster care comes with some issues: removing children from…

Taking children away from their parents and placing them in foster homes can be a bumpy process for all the people involved. Just ask the young people who…

Foster care for children always begins with a crisis. Child welfare agencies do not have the luxury of planning in advance to remove children from…

More than a quarter of a million children go into foster care in the United States every year, often because they were abused or neglected at home. The…