Friends of Iowa CASA and ICFCRB
Help Iowa Children
IOWA STATISTICS
According to Iowa's State Data Center, there were just over 5,000 children ages 0-17 in a paid foster care placement in Iowa in 2023. This does not include all children who were adjudicated in need of assistance.
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Millions of dollars are spent on Iowa's foster care system every year, not counting shelters, social workers, adoptions, family counseling, and other related services. Yet, we still have a crisis in Iowa when it comes to helping displaced children in foster care receive adequate advocacy, oversight and protection.
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In the last completed fiscal year, the CASA and FCRB programs saved the state $1.8 million - an extra $400,000 from the previous year!
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Ways to Help:
ARTICLES OF INTEREST
A foster parent reflects on loving — and letting go of — the children in his care
In his new memoir, Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family, Mark Daley writes about the foster care system at large, as well as the joy and pain he and his spouse experienced as foster parents.