Shantel Lisby was 11 months old when she died of a cocaine overdose in her foster mother's apartment in Brooklyn, blood seeping from her mouth.
With federal funds and the help of social service agencies -- primarily Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services and the United States Catholic Conference -- they will be placed in foster homes and apartments in cities across the country.
That was when Ms. Yates, 67 -- who neighbors said had raised dozens of foster children in the apartment -- left for a suburb of Philadelphia.
The authorities are investigating what they say appears to have been the beating of a 17-month-old boy who was found unconscious and struggling to breathe inside his foster mother's Brooklyn apartment.
It's only when the film visits Astrid's last foster home, the chaotic apartment of Rena (Svetlana Efremova), a Russian émigrée who deals in flea-market junk, that the movie begins to unravel.
The bands, modeled on an earlier Foster design for an apartment complex in an Alpine resort, are conceived as delicate movable screens, reflecting the good taste of the inhabitants while protecting them from the unwanted gaze of outsiders.
Following an unusually violent incident of abuse, JJ decides to run away from his foster mother's gaudy apartment in a Staten Island housing project and take the ferry to Manhattan, where he hopes to find his mother.
Affordable apartments would foster close-knit communities and encourage people to live and work in the centre instead.
She now lives alone, but not long ago, Ms. Johnson, who works in a nursing home and is also attending college full time, shared the two-bedroom apartment with her foster father, who died a few months ago.
His government established a new Child Protection Authority, promoted the "family-type" apartments and introduced foster care, which had never existed in Romania.
