Foster care

Teens, young adults in foster system eligible for grants

Jun. 23, 2021 12:46 PM EDT
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi teenagers and young adults who have spent time in the foster care system are now eligible for federal grants worth thousands...

FILE - This June 8, 2021 file photo shows the Supreme Court building in Washington. A Thursday, June 17, 2021 Supreme Court ruling that favored Catholic Social Services in Philadelphia was far from the constitutional gale wind that would have reshaped how courts interpret religious liberty under the First Amendment. Governmental entities are now on notice that if they want to ban discrimination against LGBTQ persons or anyone else, they had better not allow for any exceptions – or else religious groups will have the right to ask for them, and they'll have a strong case for getting them. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Catholic foster care agency wins Supreme Court verdict

By Jessica Gresko Jun. 17, 2021 03:20 PM EDT

Leroy Pascubillo smiles as he looks at his daughter, who was born addicted to heroin and placed with a foster family at birth, and talks about his journey regaining custody, May 10, 2021, in Seattle. Pascubillo, who had used drugs for the better part of four decades, was in a court-ordered in-patient drug rehab program when the pandemic first hit. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

AP analysis: COVID prolonged foster care stays for thousands

By Sally Ho And Camille Fassett Jun. 08, 2021 07:24 AM EDT

AP analysis: COVID prolonged foster care stays for thousands

By Sally Ho And Camille Fassett Jun. 08, 2021 07:19 AM EDT

Olivia Kilfoyle stands in her new apartment in Ogden, Utah, on Thursday, May 20, 2021, thanks to assistance from an injection of federal COVID-19 relief funds meant to help those in the foster care system or those who have recently aged out of it. (Tim Vandenack/Standard-Examiner via AP)

COVID-19 relief funds put former foster kid on stable ground

By Tim Vandenack May. 31, 2021 08:00 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 13, 2021, file photo, kindergarten students participate in a classroom activity on the first day of in-person learning at Maurice Sendak Elementary School in Los Angeles. All 4-year-olds in California could go to kindergarten for free under a new proposal Wednesday, May 12, 2021, from Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration, part of a broad new education spending package made possible by the state's surprise budget surplus. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

California governor proposes public school 'transformation'

By Adam Beam And Jocelyn Gecker May. 12, 2021 09:00 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 22, 2021 file photo, a sleeping area set up inside exhibit hall B of the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif., where migrant children found at the U.S.-Mexico border without a parent will be temporarily housed. The Biden administration is holding tens of thousands of asylum-seeking children in an opaque network of some 200 facilities that The Associated Press has now learned spans two dozen states and includes five shelters with more than 1,000 children packed inside. (Brittany Murray/The Orange County Register via AP, Pool, File)

Migrant children held in mass shelters with little oversight

By Garance Burke, Juliet Linderman And Martha Mendoza May. 11, 2021 07:00 AM EDT

Reps. Bill Wheat, R-Ponchatoula, from left, Chris Turner, R-Ruston; and Troy Romero, R-Jennings, look through budget documents during a meeting of the House Appropriations Committee on Monday, May 3, 2021, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)

Louisiana House GOP leaders unveil their budget proposal

By Melinda Deslatte May. 03, 2021 01:32 PM EDT

Some push to kill off PA regulations halted during pandemic

By Mark Scolforo Apr. 27, 2021 08:11 AM EDT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania put on ice hundreds of state government regulations during the pandemic, but policymakers are starting to weigh whether any...

This 2021 photo provided by Bridgette Griffin shows her and her daughter, Aubrey Faith Griffin, on Aubrey's third birthday at their home in Atlanta. Griffin, adopted Aubrey from foster care and been a foster parent to many other children, including teenage girls and babies. Though she thrives on being a foster mom, she sees traces of racism ingrained in the child-welfare system. "You see the difference in the courts - two kids coming in for the same type of neglect,” she said, “The judge looks at them differently, the social workers deal with them differently. There’s more sympathy for the white parents, unfortunately. ... It’s not fair.” (Bridgette Griffin via AP)

Many say now is the time to fight racial bias in foster care

By David Crary Apr. 14, 2021 12:24 PM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2021 file photo, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations committee Sen. Blake Tillery, R-Vidalia, presents an amendment to HB 80 in the Senate Chambers during the Georgia legislative session at the Georgia State Capitol building in Atlanta. The Senate voted 54-0 on Tuesday, March 23, to pass House Bill 81, which calls for Georgia to spend $27.3 billion in the year starting July 1. That puts back a fraction of the $2.2 billion that lawmakers cut last year when they feared a big drop in tax revenue. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Georgia budget nears final action as Senate backs plan 54-0

By Jeff Amy Mar. 23, 2021 12:18 PM EDT

Highlights of Ohio governor's proposed 2-year spending plan

Feb. 18, 2021 05:07 PM EST
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Small businesses and local communities would share most of a $1 billion initiative to help them recover from the coronavirus pandemic,...

This image released by Netflix shows Viola Davis in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." (David Lee/Netflix via AP)

New this week: 'Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom' and Paul McCartney

By The Associated Press Dec. 14, 2020 01:27 PM EST

Child advocates worry about unreported abuse during pandemic

By Molly Parker Dec. 05, 2020 01:01 AM EST
ANNA, Ill. (AP) — In late spring and into the summer, Dr. Kathy Swafford, who specializes in treating child victims of sexual abuse, noticed a significant drop...

Grant will help prevent youth homelessness in Rhode Island

Nov. 22, 2020 01:02 PM EST
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island has received a nearly $95,000 grant to help prevent youth homelessness and housing instability, issues exacerbated by the...

The Supreme Court is seen on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Washington. President Donald Trump says he's planning an aggressive legal strategy to try prevent Pennsylvania from counting mailed ballots that are received in the three days after the election, a matter that could find its way to the high court. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

A more conservative court hears same-sex foster parent case

By Jessica Gresko Nov. 04, 2020 02:14 PM EST

Kentucky governor relaunches kynect with expanded mission

By Bruce Schreiner Oct. 05, 2020 03:45 PM EDT
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A state-run web portal that signed up hundreds of thousands of people for health coverage before its dismantling was relaunched Monday by...

Siblings Katherine and Jazzmyn Guzman talk to each other, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, in Newark, N.J. Their mother, Lunisol Guzman, who as a single mother raised three children and adopted two more in her late 40s, died of COVID-19, leaving 2-year-old Jazzmyn and her 4-year-old brother, Zavion, motherless. Guzman's adult daughters, Katherine and Jennifer, have stepped up to raise the children their mother embraced in middle age. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

2 toddlers lose adoptive mom; older sisters fill the void

By David Crary Oct. 05, 2020 10:11 AM EDT

New federal data: fewer kids in US foster care system

By David Crary Aug. 24, 2020 01:32 PM EDT
The number of children in the U.S. foster care system has dropped for a second year in a row, and a record number of children in the child welfare system were...

Trump signs order to strengthen US child welfare system

By David Crary Jun. 24, 2020 01:59 PM EDT