Foster Parents

Advocates: Teens in foster care need a place to belong

Last updated Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 8:05pm

SOUTH OGDEN -- Tears and joy mixed Saturday as a panel of foster-parent advocates discussed their experiences of taking in teenagers or of being taken in themselves.

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Tech. Sgt. Steven Frazier, an active-duty member of the 388th Fighter Wing, watches Rigby (center) and Oslo, both 3, go through their Christmas stockings at the Burke family home in North Salt Lake on Thursday. Each year, airmen from Hill Air Force base deliver donated gifts to hundreds of children in foster care through the Utah Foster Care Foundation's Giving Tree program. (ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner)

Hill airmen deliver Christmas to foster care children

Last updated Friday, December 16, 2011 - 12:59am

NORTH SALT LAKE -- Christmas came early for Top of Utah foster care families Thursday.

About 80 uniformed airmen from Hill Air Force Base's 388th and 419th fighter wings gathered at the Utah Foster Care Foundation offices in Ogden to help package and deliver Christmas gifts to foster and adoptive families in Weber, Davis, Morgan and Cache counties.

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(NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner) Lourdes Nava (center) talks with her son, Fernando, about the homework he has to finish. The Navas have also had foster children at their home during the last three years, but not at the time of these pictures.

State in need of more Latino foster parents

Last updated Sunday, October 9, 2011 - 9:22pm

CLINTON -- For children entering the foster care system, showing up at a stranger's house can be a scary situation.

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