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Irene Clements

foster parent recruitment and retention

5/18/2018

We Have to Stop Losing Half of Foster Parents in the First Year

Opinion

Irene Clements

One hundred and twenty seven. That’s the number of children that were entrusted to my husband Billy and myself over our 27 years as foster parents. Each year, as we celebrate National Foster Care Month, I like to take a few moments to reflect on the children who came into our lives as foster parents. 

6/7/2016

The Evolution of Foster Parent Recruitment and Training

John Kelly

The U.S. family foster care program dates back over 150 years. Known as the father of foster care, a young minister – Charles Loring Brace – was horrified by the thousands of orphaned and destitute European immigrant children he found roaming the streets of New York City or barely surviving in tenements and orphanages.

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