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Foster Care

NC launches Children and Families Specialty Plan to cover health needs

  • Dec 1, 2025

Durham Co. program helps families stay together and avoid foster care

  • Oct 13, 2025

Some new NC laws take effect on Oct. 1, 2025: List

  • Oct 1, 2025

Stein signs bills to reform foster care, support veterans

  • Jun 29, 2025

2-year-old in US foster care after parents deported

  • Apr 30, 2025

Retired sheriff's detective speaks out on Turpin abuse investigation

  • Nov 22, 2024

Paris Hilton speaks at House committee hearing on child welfare

  • Jun 27, 2024

Wake County seek foster parents to help children in need

  • May 21, 2024

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Wake County houses foster teens in office building: 'Desperately need' families

  • Jul 31
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Durham Co. program helps families stay together and avoid foster care

  • Oct 13, 2025
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NC foster dad rewarded with trip to Disney by 'Tamron Hall Show'

  • Dec 12, 2023
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NC man survives the streets in Uganda to become foster dad

  • Dec 11, 2023
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Wake County hosts adoption information fair Saturday

  • Nov 17, 2023
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Need for Foster Care Families in Durham County Increases During Summer Months

  • Jun 7, 2023
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LA Rams internship helps homeless student beat the odds in pursuit of success

  • Jan 28, 2022
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Teen's non-profit brings holiday cheer to foster kids

  • Dec 19, 2020

Latest Stories

From foster care to university: How to secure financial stability

In "Our America: In the Black," we explore how education can ensure foster care and low-income students go to college debt free.

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  • Jan 27, 2024

12 NC foster children have forever homes after special adoption oath ceremony in Raleigh

A judge had a special adoption ceremony for 12 foster children who were adopted by 11 families.

  • Nov 21, 2023

Wake County hosts adoption information fair Saturday

Nearly 200 kids in Wake County are currently waiting for their forever homes and hoping they will one day be adopted.

  • Nov 17, 2023

'Lack of resources': Increasingly, NC foster children are having to sleep in county offices

The strain on North Carolina's foster care system is leading counties to scramble to find places for children to stay.

  • Aug 18, 2023

'Love and stability.' Growing need for foster care families in North Carolina during summer months

There has been a 23 percent decline in licensed foster homes in North Carolina, According to a national count of foster homes and families.

  • Jun 7, 2023