Advocates say foster families are more important than ever. In the weeks after the brutal slaying of Emily Pike, the 14-year-old San Carlos Apache girl who went missing from a group home in Mesa ...

The Four Oaks Jeff Davis Center in Cedar Rapids is part of statewide nonprofit network that trains foster and adoptive parents in Iowa. There is a critical need for more foster parents in Iowa ...

Funding shortfalls and too few foster homes are straining the state's group home system, leaving tribes to seek other solutions.