Several bills passed by the NC General Assembly took effect on Oct. 1. The new laws address several issues, including immigration enforcement, crime legislation, and child welfare.
A North Carolina foster was ready to adopt her foster child, but claims he was taken from the home due to race.
Nothing has been done to help Briauna get answers on how a previously healthy one-year old boy could simply die. To this point, she has been told essentially nothing, except that an autopsy is pending and could take months, or even more than a year.
After passing unanimously in both chambers of the General Assembly last week, Gov. Josh Stein signed HB 612, the Fostering Care in NC Act, on Thursday.
The Fostering Care in NC Act is now on its way to Gov. Josh Stein after clearing both chambers of the General Assembly with unanimous support this week.
HB 612 addresses critical flaws in our current foster care system.
The bill increases risk of failed adoptions, deprives newborns of prompt and permanent adoptive families, creates uncertainty as to whether adoptions are ever really final, and increases the cost to taxpayers of foster care and adoption.
If lawmakers truly want to reform foster care, they must listen to the voices of those living through it.
The challenge is that permananecy depends on multiple systems seamlessly working together, including the courts, child welfare, behavioral health and more.
A heart-warming story out of North Carolina is making the rounds on national media channels. Peter Mutabazi lives in Charlotte now, but he once lived on the streets of Uganda as a child. Today he is a great dad to four adopted children. He takes joy in providing these children with the childhood he never...
On Sunday, we in the North Carolina Senate received a message from the governor, notifying us that he had vetoed Senate Bill 20 — the Care for Women & Children Act. It was both disheartening and telling that the governor chose Mother’s Day weekend to veto our bill, which protects the sanctity of human life...
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