Now that Foster Care Awareness Month has drawn to a close, the State Court Administrative Office’s Foster Care Review Board (FCRB) program is calling for more volunteers as it released its 2024 Annual Report, which shows that the program reviewed 240 cases involving 476 children in 2024. The FCRB program works to ensure that children are placed in safe, permanent homes as quickly as possible and investigates appeals by foster parents who believe that children are being unnecessarily moved from their care. There are currently around 10,000 children in Michigan’s foster care system.
“We owe it to vulnerable children and families in Michigan to protect them and to ensure timely permanency for children in the foster care system,” said Justice Kimberly A. Thomas, the Michigan Supreme Court’s liaison on child welfare matters. “Without the dedicated individuals who volunteer their time through the Foster Care Review Board toward this mission, the successes reflected in this report would not be possible.”
Recruitment for membership on the FCRB 12 regional review boards is year-round, but interested individuals are encouraged to submit applications by August 1, 2025. Interviews and background checks are required. The application is available at www.courts.michigan.gov/administration/court-programs/foster-care-review-board-program/fcrb-volunteers.
Applicants are welcome from around the state and are urgently needed in these areas: Northern Michigan; the Upper Peninsula; and Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Ingham, Livingston, Washtenaw, and Wayne counties.
“We owe it to vulnerable children and families in Michigan to protect them and to ensure timely permanency for children in the foster care system,” said Justice Kimberly A. Thomas, the Michigan Supreme Court’s liaison on child welfare matters. “Without the dedicated individuals who volunteer their time through the Foster Care Review Board toward this mission, the successes reflected in this report would not be possible.”
Recruitment for membership on the FCRB 12 regional review boards is year-round, but interested individuals are encouraged to submit applications by August 1, 2025. Interviews and background checks are required. The application is available at www.courts.michigan.gov/administration/court-programs/foster-care-review-board-program/fcrb-volunteers.
Applicants are welcome from around the state and are urgently needed in these areas: Northern Michigan; the Upper Peninsula; and Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Ingham, Livingston, Washtenaw, and Wayne counties.
