Minnesota Department of Human Services

Thousands of Kids Need Foster Care in Minnesota & North Dakota

Nearly 17,000 kids needed social assistance in Minnesota. while 1,050 registered in North Dakota

MOORHEAD, Minn. — For the last few years, social workers have struggled to find families to accommodate a growing number of foster kids. “A lot of those kids are waiting because we don’t have places to put teenage kids or sibling groups, and it’s hard for us to find homes that can take that many kids because a lot of our…