The country has lost one in five licensed foster homes since 2019, leaving about one home for every two children in care. When homes run out, children sleep in offices, hotels and hospital wards. This briefing maps the foster-family shortage in every state and shows how BB2G helps recruit, license, support and keep foster and kinship families.
States are shaded by children in foster care per 10,000 residents (FY2022). Each glow is a documented home shortage, licensing change or kinship reform; red marks children left without a home.
National counts and recent state changes, newest first.
The audit follows each family from first inquiry to license, placement and either long service or closure, and asks what would have kept them.
Days from first call to license, where applicants drop out and why. Iowa cut licensing from nine months to four.
Every closed home and the reason, from exit interviews and caseworker notes.
Foster and kinship rates, how fast they're paid, and whether kin get equal pay.
Respite care, 24-hour help lines, training, peer mentors and caseworker turnover.
Whether children are placed in the right home, close to school and family.
Where foster families' own records are stored and who can see them.
Every family that leaves takes beds with it. BB2G treats keeping families as seriously as finding new ones.
Every applicant's days-to-license tracked, with background checks kept and paperwork cut.
A licensed kinship pathway with the same pay as foster families.
Respite, a 24-hour line and lived-expert peer advocates (OPP-42) for every home.
Therapeutic homes for complex needs and placements near school and family.
Family co-housing (OPP-41) that keeps parents and children together while they rebuild.
Every closure has an exit interview, and the reasons are published so the system can fix them.
Multi-jurisdiction coordination for children who cross county and state lines.
Prevention services that keep children safely at home in the first place.
Placements, missing-child reporting and provider payments.
Prevention books and training for foster parents, educators and churches.
Foster-family agencies and parent advocates screened and supported.
Local partners that wrap support around foster families.
A family has to inquire, train, pass checks, get licensed, take a placement and get support for years. At 95% per step, most families drop out somewhere. Move the sliders.
With BB2G, every step has a check that catches 99% of stalls and drop-offs and brings in a named person before the family walks away.
Rank 1 has the most children in foster care per 10,000 residents (FY2022). Select a column to re-sort.
Documented foster-home shortages, children left without homes, and licensing and kinship reforms, newest first, each linked to its source.
Children in foster care (FY2022), maltreatment rate, licensed homes where published, and every documented shortage or reform in each jurisdiction.
How a foster-home shortage forms, and the steps that reverse it.
Start by finding out why families leave, then fix it county by county.
Authorize an audit of the foster-family licensing pipeline and home closures in one region.