Faith is 14 years old, sings in her school choir, plays volleyball, loves to swim and already knows what she wants to be when she grows up: a crime scene detective. She is also a child in the Kansas foster care system still waiting for a family to call her own.
According to The Kansas City Star, Faith is described as polite, loyal and caring, and she handles many day-to-day tasks on her own. She enjoys volleyball, swimming, singing and spending time with friends, and she recently earned a spot in choir, the paper reports. Those small, ordinary milestones are part of what her case profile highlights as she waits for a permanent home.
A Case Number, A Child Waiting
Faith's case is tracked under the number CH-7694 through Adopt Kansas Kids, the state's adoption exchange organization, according to the agency's listing for her. The nonprofit says its role is to connect prospective families with children like Faith by providing information, resources and referrals throughout the adoption process, per the organization's own description of its work.
Statewide, the need is significant. Adopt Kansas Kids says approximately 500 Kansas children in foster care are currently without a resource and waiting to be adopted. Separately, a Kansas Department for Children and Families report snippet indicates that 5,523 children were in out-of-home placement as of September 30, 2025 — though that figure reflects a different, broader population of children in care and should not be read as a direct count of those awaiting adoption.
How Kansas Families Can Step Forward
The Kansas Department for Children and Families says people interested in adopting should contact Adopt Kansas Kids or call 1-855-AdoptKS (1-855-236-7857). The department's adoption-services page also notes that child-welfare case-management providers are responsible for finding homes for children who lack another resource for adoption, and that FosterAdopt Connect gathers information to list children and families on the state's adoption exchange website.
For families further along in the process, Adopt Kansas Kids also points to support through K-PARC, which offers Parent Cafés, Weekend Couples Retreats and other resources geared toward adoptive families once a placement is underway.
Broader Pressures On The System
The push to find homes for children like Faith comes as Kansas' foster care system faces outside scrutiny. An independent third-party organization released a 2025 annual assessment of the state's foster care system tied to a court-ordered settlement of a lawsuit, as reported by the Kansas Reflector. That assessment underscores the kind of systemic pressures facing children waiting for placement across the state, even as individual cases like Faith's move forward one family inquiry at a time.
For now, Faith's story remains what it has been described as: a teenager with specific hopes — choir solos, volleyball games, a future in crime scene investigation — and an open case number still waiting to be matched with a family willing to take the next step.
