The Savannah Bananas — baseball’s answer to basketball’s Harlem Globetrotters — may be reinventing the rules of the game, but their genius creator, Jesse Cole, has an even more ambitious vision. He ...

Illinois 18-year-old Mackenzi Felmlee was tortured and, in May 2024, killed by her long-term foster parents. A year later, after the state issued criminal charges, it was revealed that Mackenzi had ...

HOW THE PROGRAMS HERE WORK TO SUPPORT THAT. DO THEY FEEL SAFE? DO THEY FEEL SAFE TO TELL US IF THEY’RE NOT FEELING SAFE? KEY QUESTIONS KELLY HUGHES AND HER TEAM AT FOSTER LOVE PROJECT KEEP TOP OF MIND ...

This story was originally published in Uncloseted Media, an LGBTQ focused investigative news outlet. LGBTQ kids make up a third of the American foster care system and transgender kids enter it at five ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - As the summer season ends, the school year kicks off with both excitement and challenges. According to a press release from TFI, The Family Initiative (TFI) offers advice on how ...

Nicki Starr and wife Marcy have helped raise more than 100 foster children in New Mexico When Nicki Starr met her wife, she was adamant: no kids. But years later, they celebrated Mother's Day ...

I've spent over four decades in courtrooms watching an American tragedy continue to unfold. Children—some barely old enough to speak—face the traumas of abuse, neglect, removal from their natural ...

States will be responsible for the sign-up process, but it's unclear what happens after that First lady Melania Trump said that 23 states had signed up to participate in the program. Starting in July, ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Studies estimate that up to 90% of children in foster care have experienced trauma, ...

First Lady Melania Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday announced the launch of Fostering the Future Accounts, a new expansion of Trump Accounts designed to help children in foster ...

At any given time, an estimated 400,000 children and youth are in foster care nationwide. May is Foster Care Awareness Month, and New Hope for Families is encouraging community members to get involved ...