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Kulongoski task force takes aim at foster care disparities (Portland Tribune)

Gov. Ted Kulongoski signed an executive order Monday setting up a state task force that will come up with ideas to reduce racial disparities in the state’s foster care system. According to the governor, American Indian and African American children are over-represented in the state’s ...

Meeting will explain foster care in Manitowoc County (Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter)

MANITOWOC An informational meeting about foster care will be held from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Jan. 19 in the Balkansky Community Room on second floor of the Manitowoc Public Library, 707 Quay St.

Despite mandate, 20,000 children remain in extended foster care (The Uniontown Herald Standard)

A statewide study has found that about 25 percent of about 20,000 children living in foster care have been there for more than 17 months despite a federal mandate that they should be freed for adoption.

Temporary care home to buttress overtaxed foster-care system (Saskatoon StarPhoenix)

A new residential home for First Nations children in Saskatoon who are in the care of the provincial government should soon be up and running.

Appeals court renews Pa. couple's foster care suit (Centre Daily Times)

A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit filed by two former foster parents in northwestern Pennsylvania who say they weren't told a teenager placed in their home by child welfare agencies had a history of sexually abusing others.