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 ...
HARVEY, Iowa — Last year, the number of children in Iowa needing foster care outweighed the number of licensed foster parents. The number of foster homes has decreased steadily over the past five ...
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 ...