Tom Rawlings is an attorney at Taylor English Duma, LLP, in Atlanta, Georgia. Tom is a board-certified child welfare law specialist and serves as General Counsel of Fostering Impact, a nonprofit providing support to families caring for children in foster care. He publishes a weekly newsletter on child welfare issues.
A fast-growing area of foster care policy is “kinship care,” when extended family members step up to take care of children at risk of going into the system. Part of the boom in kinship care is because official federal policy encourages states to find k …
If you’re hoping to adopt a child, becoming a foster parent is often a great way to bring into your home a child who may, under the right circumstances, become a part of your family. Each year, around 50,000 children are adopted from foster care, and t …
