The Kindness Project’s curated shop provides each new foster child with a week’s wardrobe and other items. #FosterChildren #children #charity

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This Pennsylvania boutique keeps foster children clothed in kindness

The Kindness Project’s curated shop provides each new foster child with a week’s wardrobe and other items.

The Christian Science Monitor
The Kindness Project’s curated shop provides each new foster child with a week’s wardrobe and other items. #FosterChildren #children #charity
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2025/1209/foster-children-support-kindness-project
This Pennsylvania boutique keeps foster children clothed in kindness

The Kindness Project’s curated shop provides each new foster child with a week’s wardrobe and other items.

The Christian Science Monitor

Massachusetts foster parents lose license after refusing to properly care for LGBTQ+ youth

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/foster-parents-lose-license-lgbtq

Guns, Gays, and Birthright Citizenship

What is in the best interest of LGBTQ foster children?

The Dispatch
Texas sues Biden administration over requirement to provide LGBTQ+ youth foster placements

Placing LGBTQ+ foster children in more accepting homes would cost Texas too much money and resources, the lawsuit says.

The Texas Tribune
Tennessee Republicans introduce religious exemption bill protecting anti-LGBTQ+ foster parents - LGBTQ Nation

Opponents say the proposed law will lead to further traumatization of LGBTQ+ foster children.

LGBTQ Nation
Northwest, other U.S. senators press feds to adopt rule protecting LGBTQ foster children – Oregon Capital Chronicle

A group of U.S. senators are pressing Health and Human Services to adopt new rules to protect LGBTQ kids when they enter foster care.

Oregon Capital Chronicle
Teen boy thrilled to be adopted just before his 18th birthday, ‘In the nick of time’

Read about the heartwarming story of a teen boy who was adopted just before his 18th birthday, giving him the stability and love he had always longed for. Learn about the challenges faced by older orphans in the foster system and the crucial need for loving, permanent homes.

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#Hayward city attorney files #Lawsuit against #AlamedaCounty alleging ‘deliberate indifference’ & "willfull #mismanagement " encouraging serious #childsexabuse #prostitution, #pimping #drugabuse now being encouraged at #fosterchildren housing center since #Sheriff Deputies abandoned duties at facility in February.

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/06/22/hayward-accuses-alameda-county-of-deliberate-indifference-to-child-prostitution-drug-use-at-foster-center/

Hayward accuses Alameda County of ‘deliberate indifference’ to child prostitution, drug use at foster center

The city’s lawsuit against Alameda County claims a child foster center in Hayward has spiraled out of control.

East Bay Times
Foster children placed with at least one sibling are less likely to move to a new foster home, particularly due to problems or negative experiences in the foster home. #FosterChildren #NICHDimpact #Siblings #SiblingPlacement #FosterHomes
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33910412
Sibling Separation and Placement Instability for Children in Foster Care - PubMed

U.S. foster care policy prioritizes keeping siblings together while in foster care. However, prior research on the effects of sibling placement is limited in sample, measures, and research design. In this study, we use data on 2,297 children from an urban county in years 2015-2019 and assess how sib …

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