Iowa faces a foster care crisis, according to an official with the state’s main contractor that supports foster families, and the only Iowa agency that licenses new foster parents. Emma Pischel, the ...

Iowans for Adoption, a non-profit organization, has launched "The Impact Circle," calling on Iowans to help solve the foster ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Since 2013, the number of children technically counted in Iowa’s foster system has been decreasing; however, there’s still a constant need for new foster families. In 2013, ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa offers a successful model for serving youth exiting foster care, according to a new study. Lead author Carl Weems is a professor and chair of human development and family studies at ...

Iowa is implementing a 2023 federal rule that allows states to make their own kinship-specific licensing requirements, according to foster care workers and advocates. State data from federal fiscal ...

An Iowa State University study concludes the state of Iowa is offering a successful program model for young people after they leave the foster care system. Professor Carl Weems, who chairs ISU’s ...

The following answers to questions were sent Nov. 14 by the Iowa Health and Human Services Department as part of communication between KCCI Investigates and state officials. This is the entire ...

STORM LAKE, IA (KTIV) - May is National Foster Care Awareness Month and two organizations have partnered to give bikes to hundreds of kids in foster care in Iowa. 327 bikes will be given to children ...

NOW. A CHILD WELFARE TASK FORCE CREATED AFTER THE DEATHS OF SABRINA RAY AND NATALIE FINN, HAS NOT MET IN ALMOST TWO YEARS, AND KCCI UNCOVERED THE STATE HAS NO FUTURE MEETINGS PLANNED. KCCI CHIEF ...