Healthy Foster Care America

Vision Statement

We have a dream that foster care will be a valued, healing, healthy, and empowering resource for children, teens, families, and communities, so that every child and teen in foster care will thrive in a forever family.

We will achieve this by engaging communities and their leaders in supporting children, teens, and their families with an effective, multidisciplinary, integrated, and comprehensive continuum of care.

What's New!

		Sound Advice on Mental Health To help guide parents and caregivers, the AAP offers a collection of interviews with pediatricians about child behavior, emotions, and other mental health topics
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What's Your Role?

		Health Care Professional
		Mental Health Professional
		Child Welfare Professional
		Judge, Attorney, or Child Advocate
		Policymaker or Administrator
		Child or Family Members

The persons whose photographs are depicted on this Web site are professional models.
They have no relation to the issues discussed. Any characters they are portraying are fictional.

A Point in Time:
September 30, 2010

On September 30, 2010, there were an estimated 408,425 children and teens in foster care. An estimated 783,000 children and teens spent time in the foster care system at some point between October 1, 2009 and September 30, 2010.

About 254,375 children and teens entered foster care in 2010. In addition, 64,084 birth parents of children and teens in foster care had their parental rights terminated.

Source: AFCARS data, U.S.
Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families