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Opinion | Foster Care and Child Welfare
New York Times· 27 minutes agoReaders discuss a guest essay about removing children from troubled homes. The trauma of being ripped away from their parents and placed in the foster...
Opinion: Cash payments to Colorado families might keep kids out of foster care
Denver Post· 25 minutes agoWashington, D.C., is part way through its Mother Up program, which gives stipends to Black mothers...
Oregon DHS and Disability Rights Oregon settle long-running class-action foster care lawsuit
The Bulletin· 15 hours agoThe Oregon Department of Human Services agreed to a historic settlement in a class action lawsuit...
Oregon DHS settles class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of foster children
KATU Portland· 13 hours agoThe Oregon Department of Human Services agreed to settle a lawsuit filed five years ago on behalf of...
Foster care agency works to recruit families for kids in need
1011 News· 3 days agoAs the number of kids going in and out of foster care fluctuates across Nebraska, the number of...
States shift toward kin-first foster care
Stateline via Yahoo News· 1 day agoWhen Victoria Gray and her husband took in their grandchild in 1993, there wasn’t a catchall term to explain the difficult task ahead. They just did the...
Settlement in class-action lawsuit to ‘transform’ Oregon foster care system
KOIN via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoAfter five years, a class-action lawsuit between children's advocates and the State of Oregon...
Foster Care Activist Dr. Candice Matthews Says Death Threats Won’t Stop Her
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 5 days agoMatthewsA Black civil rights activist in Texas who is notorious for “dropping the hammer for...
Court sides with West Virginia TV station over records on top official's firing
Associated Press via AOL· 15 hours agoA termination letter involving a former top official at the now-defunct agency that ran West...
Advocates urge Walz to sign bill funding free college for former foster youth
Post-Bulletin· 15 hours agoThe program has only been offering grants since fall semester 2022, but had an unexpected rise in...