foster care

SMETHPORT — Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of McKean County is seeking community members willing to advocate for abused and neglected childr...

HARRISBURG — Orphaned and disabled children in Pennsylvania’s foster care system often qualify for Social Security, disability and veterans benefits. ...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvanians and professionals in the field agree: the mental health crisis throughout the state has reached a critical point. Data sho...

SMETHPORT — Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of McKean County is seeking community members willing to advocate for abused and neglected childr...

Sharonell Fulton and Toni Simms-Busch should be household names. Fulton and Simms-Busch were the plaintiffs in a recent foster-care and religious-libe...

McKean County commissioners have declared May to be Foster Care Month in the county. They made the announcement during their regular meeting Tuesday m...

SMETHPORT — During these times where national and local attention are focused on coping with the impact of Covid-19, McKean County Department of Human...

SMETHPORT — The McKean County Commissioners shared with the public Tuesday their plans to honor the life and public service of a former colleague, Al ...

WASHINGTON — At a time when more than 400,000 children are in foster care nationwide, the city of Philadelphia is threatening to cut ties with Catholi...

Peggy Bailey said her home resembled a funeral parlor on Friday. But the occasion isn’t a solemn one as flowers filled her home — it is a time of cele...

Kane couple Rae El and Danyelle Whitman didn’t set out to be trailblazers. The women wanted children, and knew there were a lot of children out there ...

SMETHPORT —The McKean County Commissioners voted Tuesday to enter an agreement with the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development ...

SMETHPORT — CASA of McKean County has been awarded a $10,000 local rural grant from the National Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Association, ...

The foster parents gathered at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford Thursday for the McKean County Children and Youth Service’s annual appreciatio...