Fostering the Future: Safety, Permanence and Well-Being for Children in Foster Care
May 2004 Fostering the Future: Safety, Permanence and Well-Being for Children in Foster Care All children need safe, permanent families that love, nurture, protect, and guide them. This was the starting point for the work of the Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care and a steady compass throughout our deliberations. Foster care protects children who are not safe in their own homes. For some children, it is literally life-saving. But for too many children, what should be a short-term refuge becomes a long-term saga, involving multiple moves from one foster home to another. None of . . .
