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A Columbia Foster and Adoption Project board member says many parents are having issues finding subsidized child care placements.

The Columbia foster and adoption project giving tree provides gift to kids in the foster care system.

Columbia City Council heard a report on the citys current recycling system at its meeting Monday night.

Right now more than 8,000 children are in Tennessee's foster care system. The new law going into effect next month will help families finalize adoptions.

Advocacy organizations, adoptees see room for additional improvements

Numbers from the last report card on the health and welfare of children in the state researchers call the foster care system "the most unstable in the country."

The Adoption Project, a nonprofit, launched to make Tennessee the most adoption-friendly state in the country and also change the system.

Human Rights Watch had the honor of screening the beautifully personal documentary, Daughter of a Lost Bird, at our New York and London film festivals, which shares the story of Kendra Mylnechuk Potter, who was adopted into a white family and raised with no knowledge of her Native American parentage.

In the late 1950s, the federal government established a program called the "Indian Adoption Project.” Throughout the nearly decade-long initiative, hundreds of native children were removed from their communities and placed with white families. The children were called “lost birds.” Lena Welker, now 66, was one of them.