Opinion

To kick off this year’s holiday season, I plan to add some color to cheer up my houseplant selection. Sometimes I give friends and neighbors a holiday plant, but I need to keep in mind if they have small children or pets as some...

A child who enters foster care needs a safe, comfortable, supportive place to live – a place that allows them to maintain connections with people they love, keeps them in school, and gives them help processing trauma they may have experienced. Usually, that place is a relative’s home or a foster family home. But some children in the foster care system are placed in group homes, which do not always provide stable homes or meet children’s needs.