Attorneys for A Better Childhood, Disability Rights West Virginia and the Shaffer and Shaffer law firm ... 12 children in the state’s overloaded foster care system. The lawsuit alleges that ...

‘Serious problems in foster care’ The national organization ... Disability Rights West Virginia and Shaffer and Shaffer, a West Virginia law firm. The lawsuit alleged rampant issues with ...

West Virginia's governor says his administration will improve transparency and policies within the state’s embattled foster ...

The action came the same day a federal judge dismissed a yearslong sweeping class action lawsuit against West Virginia's welfare system on behalf of foster children. Circuit Court Judge Maryclaire ...

West Virginia's Foster Care System Is Losing Another Top Official With Commissioner's Exit CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's heavily burdened foster care system is losing another top ...

During her roughly four years in West Virginia’s foster care system, Nahomi Bennett says she bounced around among more than a dozen facilities — so many that she lost count. But there is one ...

A 2019 class-action lawsuit against the state welfare system says West Virginia foster care children’s needs have gone unmet because of a shortage of caseworkers, an overreliance on ...

This article was originally published in West Virginia Watch. The state will close the West Virginia Children’s Home, a residential facility in Elkins for foster children, by the end of the year.

Culloden, West Virginia — It's generally not socially acceptable to air a person's dirty laundry. But in the case of foster mother Kari Cox of Culloden, West Virginia, the sheer volume of her ...

West Virginia’s foster care system is in crisis, and it has spilled over into the state’s court system. As the House of Delegates Judiciary Committee gaveled in for the first time this year ...

West Virginia, which has the country's highest rate of children in foster care, is facing a class-action lawsuit accusing the state of failing to protect more than 6,000 children in their care.