Alabama Foster Care

Multiple sources say that there are roughly 400,000 kids in the foster care system in the United States currently. There are some things that humans won't fully understand unless they live through them, and the processes surrounding adoption and foster care are likely included in those things. But taking super nuanced concepts and making them less scary to approach is what we do best here at Simplified! Dr. Brian Gannon is an associate professor in the department of pediatrics at The University of Alabama College of Community Health Sciences. He is a general pediatrician at the University Medical Center as well as the founder of the FRESH Start Clinic at UMC, which serves children in state custody across West Alabama. He is a foster parent himself to eight (!!!) children and an advocate for foster families.

Alabama’s elderly and disabled adults can often find themselves in more vulnerable circumstances and in need of special care. The Alabama Department of Human Resources is helping by finding adult foster homes to assist older adults who may have trouble caring for themselves.

May is National Foster Care Month and is a time to raise awareness for the children in foster care and for the people who make up the child welfare system in the state.

Findings from the latest Alabama Kids Count Data Book are being released. The data measures how children are faring in the state and highlights several areas that policy and lawmakers need to prioritize to improve Alabama’s child well-being.

A painting project is helping provide suitcases to children in the Alabama foster care system. Unclaimed Baggage in Scottsboro is the nation’s only retailor of lost luggage.

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama lawyer is seeking $100 million in damages for four children who were fostered or adopted by a couple accused of child…

An Alabama Senate committee has advanced a bill to let faith-based adoption agencies, including those that care for state foster children, turn away gay…