Foster Club

Foster Club is the national network for young people in foster care.  Through a vibrant online community, publications, the All-Stars internship program, and many other activities, Foster Club brings the experiences, voices, and faces of youth in foster care to the front.

National Foster Care Month

May is National Foster Care Month – a time to make a lasting difference in a child’s life. There are 513,000 American youth in foster care. No matter how much time you have to give, you can do something positive that will “Change a Lifetime” for a young person in foster care. For more information on how you can help, please visit www.fostercaremonth.org today.

National Foster Parent Association

Visit NFPA if you are interested in becoming a foster parent, learning more about issues related to foster parenting, or finding training and support.

Foster Care and Adoption Statistics

The federal Children's Bureau has posted preliminary estimates for national foster care and adoption data for Fiscal Year 2006 in AFCARS Report #14. The total number of children in foster decreased from 513,000 to 510, 000 from 9/30/05 to 9/30/06. However, the number of adoptions with public agency involvement stayed the same year to year at 51,000, and parental rights were terminated for 13,000 more children in 2006 than in 2005, increasing the number of children waiting to be adopted to 129,000.

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