Few systems are as critical to a community as child welfare. To an outsider, the child welfare system is also a complex labyrinth of programs that cover children’s safety, abuse and neglect, foster care and adoption as well as supporting and strengthening families. How children fare in that system will have lifelong repercussions across all parts of society.
Foster Care and Adoption
The Orange Duffel Bag Initiative features life coaching for at risk teens and young adults in the foster care system, suffering from homelessness or enduring poverty.
An investigation into U.S. State documents highlights just how shady the international adoption scene became before a July law set common-sense regulation in place.
A woman reflects on race and adoption and growing up with parents of a different ethnicity.