MEMPHIS, Tenn. — There are new concerns over a Downtown apartment complex that provides transitional housing for children in foster care. WREG reported last year on the partnership between the Church ...

Kanaiyah Ward’s death is tragic on many levels (“Suicide cause of death of foster girl, 16, in Baltimore hotel, medical examiner rules,” Oct. 8). The failure of the Department of Human Services to ...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — After an audit revealed a lack of background check protocol for the Social Services Administration, a state lawmaker shared his first-hand experience with the foster care system and ...

Two new short-term treatment centers for children in foster care are set to open in the fall, part of a larger plan to address problems at shelters for teenagers that surfaced more than a year ago ...

Connecticut’s child welfare system isn’t hitting federal markers for success, particularly in areas related to ensuring children’s safety, access to services for families and finding a permanent place ...

Study: Lack of sleep linked to academic and behavioral problems (The Huffington Post): A new study from the Journal of Adolescent Health surveyed 2,700 middle- and high-school students and found an ...

Twenty years into a federal consent decree to improve Michigan's foster care system, the head of the state's health and human ...

In a Jan. 8 interview, Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick discussed her hopes for reforms to pursue as Georgia's 2026 legislative session ...

Maryland lawmakers are calling for hearings and stronger oversight to address the practice of housing foster children in hotels after the death of a teenage girl in Department of Human Services care ...