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Plea for new foster parents

The director of the Department of Child, Family and Adult Services responds to KCRA 3 investigation into former jail housing kids. She is calling on the community to step in to provide safe homes and a permanent solution to house foster care youth.

Hurting kids is one of society's most serious taboos. So why then are parents and family members allowed to abuse their kids often with scant repercussions?

Taivion has a passion for basketball and wants to emulate his favorite player, Steph Curry on and off the court. He hopes one day to be a lawyer if sports don't work out.

Blake is a curious, energetic, and high-spirited 10-year-old. He dreams of being a pizza chef one day and can't wait to sling some dough for his forever family.

Ask your doctor or pharmacist if paxlovid is right for you. >> margaret: finally tonight, cbss steve hartman goes "on the road" with a high school football star who is using lessons from his painful past to give others a brighter future. >> reporter: when lincoln east high school football phenom wide receiver malachi coleman announced he would be playing for nebraska next season, it was the completion of the ultimate hail mary. 12 years earlier, malachis mother left him and his younger sister by...

While hoteling may be used out of necessity, it cannot become a permanent solution. The practice of hoteling has only been increasing, and needs to be stopped before the problem

According to the Children's Home Society of Virginia, more than 700 children in the commonwealth are waiting to be adopted.

The Central Missouri Foster Care & Adoption Association will host a bus tour stopping at various locations to stimulate the varying stages of being a foster kid.

Their abuse at the hands of their parents made headlines four years ago, but now six of the 13 Turpin kids have told the courts they also experienced abuse in the foster care system.