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Across the nation, more than 390,000 children rely on foster care. However, a shortage of licensed foster homes is creating a national crisis. While official foster care cases are carefully tracked, many informal examples of kinship care aren’t part of the data. For this Us & Them episode, we hear the experiences of those who’ve been part of the foster care system.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsReports surfaced last week of the death of a 14-year-old girl leading to her mother’s arrest. Gov. Jim Justice said Tuesday that this was not a CPS case.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWest Virginia Department of Human Services Cabinet Secretary, Cynthia Persily released a statement on the recent death of a minor.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsFoster parents and kinship caregivers will have access to a new information portal if a House bill becomes law.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsChild Protective Services, or CPS, vacancies have fallen 47 percent in West Virginia in the past year.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsIn response to the DHHR’s inability to produce Child Protective Service travel records, the West Virginia Democratic Party has asked for an investigation into the department.
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