Resource Guides for Reporting on the Foster System

This resource guide series was created by Steve Volk.

In 2020, Steve received an assignment to cover the foster care system. No one told him how difficult it would be: reluctant sources, an opaque bureaucracy tucked behind privacy barriers, decades of problematic media coverage to understand and overcome. These guides are meant to help anyone interested in writing about the system to avoid a lot of the pitfalls that consumed him at the start.