California's insurance crisis now includes the foster care system. The main provider of foster care agencies is dropping its insurance coverage for the nonprofits, causing some to close. For two ...

California’s shift toward family placement has outpaced its ability to care for foster children. Sacramento County is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California now has about 18,000 fewer children in foster care than five years ago, with major declines in LA County and new ...

Lempert is the president at Children Now, a California-based nonprofit that coordinates The Children’s Movement of California and works to improve children’s health, education and overall well-being.

Adriana Mancilla made a promise she would help kids after her daughter recovered from leukemia almost three decades ago. She didn’t know exactly how, but years later, the answer came in the mail. “I ...

Advocates for California’s foster youth are criticizing Governor Gavin Newsom’s plan to cut several programs they say are critical to keeping foster youth from falling into homelessness. Newsom ...

Of the nearly 45,000 children in the California foster care system, over 8,000 are placed in resource family homes supported by nonprofit foster family agencies. Many of the state's 220 foster family ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. An insurance crisis continues to ...

Monique Lewis has figured out a few tricks to lure her foster child to school. Some days, it’s McDonald’s frappuccinos. But on days the 13-year-old girl still struggles to get out of bed, a counselor ...

Alex Ballantyne thought he’d finally found some stability after spending much of his adolescence searching for a home where he felt safe and accepted. Then, shortly after he collected his high school ...