Child welfare professionals strive every day to keep children safe, to keep families healthy and together and break multi-generational cycles of maltreatment. More than 3 million new cases of child abuse and neglect are reported every year in the United States and more than 400,000 children are in foster care at any given time. The financial cost to our society is enormous. We now have a moral imperative to recognize decades of hard data, from multiple studies covering hundreds of thousands of children and families, showing compelling evidence that a different approach can improve outcomes.
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Part 2 of a story spotlighting the benefits of an apprenticeship program in Washington state providing life-changing trade education for youth in foster care, and how more states are getting on board. This article is part of a yearlong series examining higher education for youth in foster care, made possible in part by The New York Foundling. READ MORE

The New York Foundling brought Santa Claus to deaf children in New York City at its annual holiday party for families in its Deaf Services program. READ MORE

This article about foster-adoptive parent Frances Gracia, talks about adopting 2 year old Giuseppe and overcoming health challenges READ MORE