The Scheer family isn't bound by blood, but by shared experience. Rob Scheer and his five kids each made their own journey through the foster care system with a trash bag in tow. Rob was 12 the first ...

The day state officials handed Riley a large black plastic trash bag that smelled like lemon is seared into the former Oregon foster youth’s mind. “I will never forget my first trash bag,” Riley ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - New suitcases and duffel bags are needed for foster children in Kansas. A community-wide bag drive is going on now until the end of the month. The bag drive is being organized ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCIV) — For many children entering the foster care system, the transition begins with a trash bag holding everything they own. Seacoast Church is working to change that reality, ...

Like so many parents, New York City Councilmember Rita Joseph said she will never forget those first moments with her children. But as a foster parent, who eventually adopted the two boys who came to ...

BOISE, Idaho — Every day children across the county are put into foster care for a variety of reasons. Many of those enter the system with only a few belongings and whatever they're able to carry in a ...