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One year ago, a 16 year-old boy sat in a cafeteria at a group home for teens in Kalamazoo and tossed a piece of bread at another boy. The adults in the…
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Governor Whitmer says she agrees with a federal judge that a computer system that’s supposed to help kids in foster care needs to be fixed or scrapped.A…
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More children in Michigan are dying because of abuse or neglect compared to a decade ago. Back then, the state settled a federal lawsuit, promising to…
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Have abused children been put in greater harm's way by the very people who are supposed to protect them? Reports in the Lansing State Journal point to an…
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The Michigan Supreme Court this week handed a big win to parents with disabilities in child welfare cases.If the state removes a child from her home and…
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Legislation requiring child-placing agencies to make reasonable efforts to keep siblings together in the foster care and adoption systems is going to Gov.…
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Michigan officials say the state is now complying with federal requirements for child welfare and foster care.Gov. Rick Snyder's administration said…
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A new report says more children in Michigan are growing up in low-income households now than during the Great Recession, even though the state's…
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A new report says problems with the data management system Michigan uses to track its child welfare programs is one reason the state is still under court…
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DETROIT - A judge says the state of Michigan still has "serious problems" in collecting statistics that are crucial to improving foster care, child…