child welfare

As a parent, you want your kids to grow and develop into successful adults. Providing a stable and safe home is an important part of doing that.But…

Foster care is supposed to be a temporary fix. When a child ends up in state care, the first goal is to reunite them with their birth families. But only…

Michelle Gach’s son was taken from her home nearly two years ago, when he was three year old. Police took him after he was found alone in a park across…

The occasional weekend sleepover at a friend’s house...Playing on the school basketball team...Going on a class field trip...Getting a cell…

I first met Alex back in January, when I did a story about aging out of the foster care system.Alex lives in rural Berrien County. At a minimum, he's 20…

Last week I went to Washtenaw County's first-ever Family Reunification Day. The event, held in honor of National Reunification Month in June, celebrated…

There was a protest at the University of Michigan hospital earlier this week about what one family says is a flawed child abuse investigation case. The…

Many kids in foster care (as many as 1 in 5 but more on the numbers later) don't live with a foster family, but instead live in something called a "group…

Michigan has been under a federal court order to improve its foster care system for years. The state wants the monitoring to stop, but there's no…

It makes sense that young people who have been abused or neglected would be more likely to get in serious trouble. But the numbers are nonetheless pretty…