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Fewer Children In Foster Care In NC County Promotes Child Welfare and Saves Money
Guilford County (North Carolina) has employed a multi-prong approach to family preservation, and has reduced the number of children in foster care by 31%. In this Greensboro (NC) News-Record article, county officials and national experts agree that the children who...

Florida Biological Siblings Separated in Foster Care Although One Family Will Take Them All
Little Girl in foster care in Florida is adopted. Baby Boy is placed into foster care with different foster parents and they want to adopt him. Boy and Girl are biological brother and sister...

Report -- Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care
States require youth to leave foster care at ages that vary from 18 to 21. Abundant research shows that children who are "emancipated" directly from foster care to adulthood are at "high risk for a number of adverse outcomes during...

Foster Care: Its Really About Supporting and Reuniting Families
Sometimes people become foster parents when they are in search of children to adopt. But, sometimes, they just want to help other families get through a difficult time and then reunite...

Detroit mom wants $30 mil after boy starves to death in foster care, suit alleges
In a nutshell: The plaintiff put her son in foster care because she couldn't care for him. He's 10 and quadriplegic, and though he was a temporary ward of the state, Mom didn't lose her custody of him...

AOC News: Foster Care Needed in Bracken, Fleming, Lewis, Mason, Robertson, Kenton and Grayson Counties
The following releases from the AOC: Volunteers needed to assist children placed in foster care in Bracken, Fleming, Lewis, Mason and Robertson counties Volunteers needed to assist children placed in foster care in Grayson County Volunteers needed to assist children placed in foster care in Kenton County These announcements provide a contrast with previous stories over SB 68 regarding adoption and foster care and the financial implications of the proposed legislation which did not get approved: Adoption, foster-care bill is dead for session UCLA?S WILLIAMS INSTITUTE RELEASES NEW STUDY ESTIMATING COSTS OF KENTUCKY SB 68: BARRING UNMARRIED COUPLES FROM FOSTERING AND ADOPTING WILL DISPLACE OVER 700 CHILDREN; COST STATE $5...

Foster Care Chile Molestation
Department of Children & Families pays $175,000 negligence settlement.

Child Abuse Settlement
The mother of 6-year-old Brandon Ford has accepted a $1.5 million settlement in a lawsuit that claimed the boy was severely brain damaged while in foster care...

G. Willi Foods
settles class action lawsuit claiming their containers were reduced

Pregnancy Discrimination
NutriSystem agrees to pay $82,500 settlement in employment lawsuit..

Adult Care
Friendship Care Assisted Living ordered to pay $20,000 fine for facility violations and negligence.

Chase Bank
Faces Class Action over Credit Card Rates