How do children get into foster care? What is the process for people that want to adopt and foster children? In this series of Questions You Didn't Ask, your host, Niasha Fray, and her guests, Melodye Fuller, Latanya Dubois, and Aisha Henry discuss fostering and adopting children in the African-American community.

Below is a list of several organizations that offer support, advocacy, and professional guidance to children, families, and professionals serving those impacted by foster care, adoption, and kinship care.

• A Second Chance Inc. https://www.asecondchance-kinship.com/

• A Home Within: https://www.ahomewithin.org/ or call 1.888.898.2249

• Forever Bonded: https://www.facebook.com/ForeverBondedFamily/

• National Association of Black Social Workers: https://www.nabsw.org/ or call (202) 678-4570

• Black Administrators in Child Welfare, Inc. http://blackadministrators.org/ or call 240.482.4968

• A Second Chance Inc. https://www.asecondchance-kinship.com/

• AdoptUSKids is a national project that supports child welfare systems and connects children in foster care with families. https://www.adoptuskids.org/ or call 888-200-4005

• Child Welfare Information Gateway: https://www.childwelfare.gov/ or call 1.800.394.3366

Credits:

Hosted by Niasha Fray, MA, MSPH

Produced by Felicia Rousseau & C. Perry Eleazer II - S2T Media LLC

Music provided by Ryen David and Cecil Pusey