May 27, 2026
It’s 10 PM, and a caseworker has just had to separate two children from their family. Ideally, those children would go to kin. A grandmother, an aunt or uncle, a close family friend. But she needs a placement tonight, and finding relatives on short notice is difficult when it means searching online and dialing numbers [...]
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May 21, 2026
A caseworker finishes a home visit and drives back to the office. She took quick notes during the conversation, but the details that matter most are still in her head: the grandmother’s exact words about taking the kids, the condition of the bedroom she inspected. By the time she’s at her desk, she’s reconstructing the [...]
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May 21, 2018
We have a nationwide shortage of foster families and everyone is interested in increasing this number. At Binti, we work with more than 40 agencies across the country, who serve over 40,000 children in care.
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February 26, 2018
Efforts like Continuum of Care Reform in California are part of the statewide goal to place more foster youth in family settings. However, many county child welfare agencies are struggling to meet these goals due to a shortage of available resource families, a group that includes both foster parents and kinship caregivers.
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