Far-away foster placements, social service shortcomings keeping Alameda County foster kids from family reunification

Alameda County foster kids face increasingly long odds of being reunited with their families because of out-of-county ...
Fox2Now St. Louis

Children’s Division short-staffed amid highest cases of foster kids

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – The Missouri Department of ...
WUNC

Damaged infrastructure creating challenges for social services in NC disaster counties

From monitoring suspected child abuse and neglect cases to accounting for children in foster care to taking on additional emergency responsibilities and maintaining essential services amid power and ...
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Lawmakers call for hearings to review ‘broken’ Social Services Administration

Maryland lawmakers plan to hold hearings in coming weeks on reports that the Social Services Administration may have let children in its care be housed with registered sex offenders, just one of many ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri child welfare agency pitches plan to ‘rebuild’ overburdened foster care system

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Department of Social Services Director of Children’s Division Darrell Missey on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, discusses a proposed plan ...