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  2. National Foster Care Month - Wikipedia

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    National Foster Care Month is supported and maintained by the Children's Bureau, [11] Children Welfare Information Gateway, [12] and their partners. In addition, the National Resource for Permanency and Family Connections, [13] [14] the National Foster Youth Institute, [15] the Casey Family Programs, [16] Foster Club, [17] and the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth.

  3. Foster care in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2020, there were 407,493 children in foster care in the United States. [14] 45% were in non-relative foster homes, 34% were in relative foster homes, 6% in institutions, 4% in group homes, 4% on trial home visits (where the child returns home while under state supervision), 4% in pre-adoptive homes, 1% had run away, and 2% in supervised independent living. [14]

  4. Category:Foster care - Wikipedia

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  5. Foster care - Wikipedia

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    Children of the United Kingdom's Child Migration Programme – many of whom were placed in foster care in Australia. Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home (residential child care community or treatment centre), or private home of a state-certified caregiver, referred to as a "foster parent", or with a family member approved by the state.

  6. Category:Foster care in the United States - Wikipedia

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  7. Child protective services - Wikipedia

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    Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn made a statement in 2006 about the Texas foster care system. [56] In Fiscal 2003, 2004 and 2005, respectively 30, 38 and 48 foster children died in the state's care. The number of foster children in the state's care increased 24 percent to 32,474 in Fiscal 2005, while the number of deaths increased 60 ...

  8. Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 - Wikipedia

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    The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 (AACWA) was enacted by the US Government on June 17, 1980. Its purpose is to establish a program of adoption assistance; strengthen the program of foster care assistance for needy and dependent children; and improve the child welfare, social services, and aid to families with dependent children programs.

  9. Fosterage - Wikipedia

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    In many modern western societies foster care can be organised by the state to care for children with troubled family backgrounds, usually on a temporary basis. In many pre-modern societies fosterage was a form of patronage , whereby influential families cemented political relationships by bringing up each other's children, similar to arranged ...