Becoming a Foster or Adoptive Parent
Learn about how to become a foster or adoptive parent in your state.
Learn about how to become a foster or adoptive parent in your state.
Building relationships between birth parents, foster parents and caseworkers can be extremely important for foster kids, and using Icebreaker meetings can be an effective mechanism for doing that.
An interview with Gina Miranda Samuels, researcher and associate professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago on sabbatical leave to assist in Casey's older youth and permanence efforts.
Read about The Broncheros, a family who has experienced success using Casey’s Lifelong Families model, which works to ensure that all children exit foster care to permanent, loving families and get the support needed to sustain them.
Every child needs and deserves to grow up in a safe, loving and nurturing family – a family whose support is unconditional and will last a lifetime.
The Casey Foundation believes all children need and deserve a family, and, therefore, has invested significantly in advancing permanence for those children and young people in the foster care system. Permanence can take the form of a return to birth family, kinship care, guardianship or adoption.
KIDS COUNT data snapshot suggests systems need an increased focus on reducing group care for children in foster care, though acknowledges progress in family-based placements.
Learn about Casebook, an Internet-based application that adopts some of the same social networking tools people use every day at home and at work to help child welfare professionals serve children and families more effectively.
Blog Post
A reflection on the Annie E. Casey Foundation's former president and CEO, Doug Nelson, and his instrumental role in reforming child welfare lawsuits.
