21 May 2022 National Foster Parent Month: Becoming a Foster Parent One Step at a Time By Debbie Ausburn For people interested in becoming foster parents, the question always is where to start. Agencies will offer training, but you need real...
18 May 2022 National Foster Parent Month: Thinking About Becoming a Foster Parent? By Debbie Ausburn With the emphasis this month on foster care, we will hear a lot of appeals for people to become foster parents. The pull to provide a...
04 May 2022 Five Ways to Help Foster Families By Debbie Ausburn This is National Foster Care Month, and Tuesday was National Foster Care Day. Not everyone has the resources to become a foster parent,...
25 Apr 2022 Foster Parents Vindicated By Debbie Ausburn A Massachusetts judge has dismissed involuntary manslaughter charges against two foster parents, Matthew Tucker and Cassandra...
26 Feb 2022 Sex Offender Slips Through Cracks of NY Foster Care System By Debbie Ausburn One story all over the news lately is the New York foster parent accused of using the system to force young women into prostitution. From...
07 Feb 2022 Respite Families are Essential to Foster Care By Debbie Ausburn One of the least understood and most important parts of a functioning foster care system is having respite care for foster parents....
26 Jan 2022 Tennessee sued over funding religious adoption agency By Debbie Ausburn A Jewish couple has sued the State of Tennessee, arguing that its funding of creation religious adoption agencies violates the state...
15 Jan 2022 Talking about Foster Care By Debbie Ausburn I had the opportunity to talk to Sandra Flach of Justice for Orphans on her podcast. She adopted 5 children, including kinship care and...
08 Jan 2022 Charging Parents for State Decisions By Debbie Ausburn NPR has a good article on how a federal law combined with bureaucratic inertia can compound the trauma of foster care. When biological...
08 Nov 2021 Relax, Experts are Reviewing Texas Foster Care By Debbie Ausburn The problems in Texas foster care persist, as does the federal court case involving children without places to go. The parties now have...
27 Oct 2021 How to Help Foster Families By Debbie Ausburn Because of my past work in foster care, I often am asked how the community can help foster families. Here are some practical ways that I...
11 Oct 2021 Missouri Foster Agency Under Fire for Missing Children By Debbie Ausburn Missouri's foster care agency is in the news after a federal review found important deficiencies in its documentation. Although the...