Marin County supervisors set aside $500,000 this week to help a nonprofit that serves foster care children buy an apartment building in Novato. The Marin Foster Care Association is leading an effort ...
Very few of us know what it’s like to grow up in foster care. Even fewer know what it takes to be a foster child trying to transition from high school to college. The challenges – monetarily and ...
On this National Foster Care Month, the Marin Foster Care Association says 35 percent of foster children are placed outside of Marin County because there aren't enough foster families to care for them ...
It’s 5:45 a.m. Time to rise and shine! Not to make my coffee, mind you, but to feed cats: two of my own waiting at the bedroom door and the “guest” cozy in her enclosed playpen. My cats eat first, and ...
SAN RAFAEL -- Alex Masters is looking for freelance work removing trees during the winter. He's been in the foster care system since he was 13. He just rebuilt a chainsaw he bought second-hand after ...
MARIN CO., Calif. (KGO) -- Plenty of kids head off to school with stuffed backpacks, but rarely do they make the same difference as packs handed out by a Marin County non-profit called AdvoKids in ...
MARIN, Calif. (KGO) -- The latest data form Marin County Children and Family Services shows that 42% of Marin County foster children are leaving the county. According to the director of the county's ...
When Marin school moms Darcy Alkus Barrow and Kristen Vandivier set up their private Facebook page on micro-pods three weeks ago, they didn’t anticipate the flood of interest. At last glance, more ...