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For deaf children in Texas foster care, limited accessibility compounds trauma
Texas Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA sign for the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services and the Texas Department of Family...
Hope Haven launches new child placing agency aiding foster children in East Texas
KETK Tyler via Yahoo News· 1 month agoTYLER, Texas (KETK) — An East Texas ministry will open a new child placing agency in Tyler. The Hope...
Federal judge Jack fines Texas child welfare agency $100K per day for foster care failures
Times Record News via Yahoo News· 1 month agoA federal judge has ordered Texas health and human services officials to pay $100,000 per day in...
Texas fined $100k per day for failure to investigate foster care abuse
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 1 month agoA day after a federal judge ordered Texas to pay $100,000 daily in fines for failing to comply with...
Texas AG files lawsuit targeting federal rule banning LGBTQ discrimination in foster care, adoption
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Monday targeting a federal rule that prohibits...
Editorial: Much work left to fix Texas' foster care failures
The El Paso Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA new federal report on Texas’ failing foster care system makes clear the state has a long way to go...
Texas’ foster care crisis is improving. Here’s how lawmakers can help kids even more | Opinion
Fort Worth Star-Telegram McClatchy via AOL· 1 year agoWhen state legislators last met in 2021, children were sleeping in state offices in record numbers —...
How a 12-year-old federal lawsuit turned a judge into Texas’ foster care czar
Corpus Christi Caller-Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack declared in 2015 that Texas foster kids were leaving...
Texas child protective services worker fired after telling 14-year-old girl in foster care to enter...
NBC Universal via AOL· 2 years agoA Texas child protective services worker was fired this month after she was caught on video telling...
Texas will not have to pay, for now, $100K daily in fines related to foster care abuse
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 1 month agoThe 5th Circuit Court has blocked a judge's order fining Texas $100,000 per day for failing to...