Foster Parents

Sarah Sentilles is an author, academic, religious scholar and advocate who lives in Idaho's Wood River Valley. Her latest book — called "Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours" — is a personal memoir of her navigation of the foster care system, both in Oregon and here in Idaho.

Every year, scores of young people age out of the foster care system. Some of them have nowhere to go. After they age out they don’t have access to the…

A new HBO documentary titled "Fostered" takes a critical look into the child welfare system in our country. The Los Angeles times calls the documentary…

Feds turn down Idaho Medicaid waiverIdaho doctor uses rare heart surgery technique.Building communities of hope for foster care.-Federal officials have…

State auditors say Idaho's child welfare system is overwhelmed, with too few foster parents, too heavy caseloads for social workers and not enough…