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The Winston-Salem-based nonprofit received funding to expand its Bridging Families program aimed at reuniting kids with their families.

The Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina is working in the western part of the state to provide resources to foster families affected by the storm.

The county will soon provide incentive pay to encourage social service workers to stay after hours at Department of Social Services offices with children who don鈥檛 have a foster home to go to.

New state funding may help some of the region鈥檚 most vulnerable: children in foster care who live in social services offices because of a lack of foster family placements.The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced the DSS Emergency Placement Fund to provide county departments of social services with resources to help children in their custody. Check out the breakdown of funding in WNC.

State lawmakers want to make it easier for parents to regain custody of their kids from foster care.

Once kids in the foster care system become legal adults, they鈥檙e often out on their own to find housing, jobs, and education. But they are also redefining healthy relationships in the aftermath of complicated relationships with parents and family life.

Anita had a terrible 18th birthday (she'll tell you later), but not much changed for her when she legally became an adult. For tens of thousands of young folks in the U.S. each year who turn 18 while in foster care, "legal adulthood" brings a slew of new challenges. Two women who aged out of foster care tell Anita about their experiences and how they informed the relationships they're building today. Plus, she meets someone who's seen the foster care system from both sides 鈥� as a kid, and as a foster parent.

House Bill 144 is part of the larger Medicaid transformation that has been taking place, technically independent from a proposal to expand Medicaid.

Since August, 23 kids have called a three-bedroom, three-bathroom house in Greensboro home. It's spacious, quiet and full of toys, books and has a fully鈥�

Kimberleigh Thomas knows from experience how hard it is to move forward after aging out of foster care.鈥淚 didn't know what I wanted to do at 18,鈥� Thomas鈥�