Foster Forward News Today

The New England Patriots, in partnership with Bob’s Discount Furniture and Foster Forward, helped three young adults aging out of foster care move into their new East Providence apartments on Wednesday.

'I don't know how anyone with a heart can vote against that,' said Mayor Bob DaSilva.

A proposed 144-unit affordable housing project in East Providence failed to get tax stabilization support from the city council, but the developer said the project will continue.

We crunched numbers and traced the history of housing in Rhode Island to lay out how we got to this point.

Foster Forward, in partnership with the DCYF, announced they will be giving out over 10,000 holiday gifts to children in DCYF care.

Girl Scouts honor North native

The Rhode Island Department of Housing on Thursday announced that it is issuing $10 million in funding to 27 organizations for 66 projects to provide emergency shelter, street outreach operations, housing problem-solving, supportive services, and rent ass

Representative Julie Casimiro wants to know how the state’s foster children are doing in school, and what school districts are doing to improve their performance.

For one, eminent domain powers are off the table, Speaker Shekarchi said. Also, there’s no funding to redevelop the Superman building, or the Cranston Street Armory.

This article is written as a first-person narrative based on an interview with Tiffanie Desrosiers. I entered the foster care system when I was 15 years old. I was allowed to be placed with other family members – two aunts and my grandmother – until I completed high school. It kept me tied to family and to my culture, which is Cape Verdean.