Ray Torres, executive director of Casey Family Services, explores the impact of disproportionality on Hispanic foster children, as well as the urgent need for Hispanic foster parents to improve outcomes for these children. In the process, he addresses the importance of kinship care and the need for permanency in the lives of foster children.

• Are there enough Hispanic foster homes available to care for Hispanic children (2:46):
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• How will the growth in the Hispanic population affect the quality of care of Hispanic children in foster care (1:51):
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• What is the role of kinship care for Hispanic families and what promise does that hold for children? What are its limitations (1:18)
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• What happens when Hispanic children are placed in homes of different ethnic origin (2:31):
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• You say that children need families for life. What do you mean by permanency, and why is that essential for foster children (3:23):
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• Are more Hispanic families needed to care for foster children (1:27):
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