Under Gov. Patrick Morrisey, the state has spent more than $700,000 in emergency purchases in an effort to fix glaring issues ...

A Monongalia County man has been sentenced to spend decades in prison for sexually abusing his foster son. William Wiley has ...

The West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy found in 2023 that West Virginia places children in foster at the highest rate of any state in the country, four times the national average. The study ...

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

As a West Virginia judge dismissed a sprawling lawsuit contending the state’s foster care system has let down thousands of children, the judge said the true responsibility for reform lies with ...

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 ...

Governor Morrisey cut funding for several childcare programs from the budget proposed by the WV Legislature. Now the Governor plans to revisit childcare issues, and he promises to bring “transparency ...

Being Black or enrolled in the foster care system are some of the biggest risk factors for facing school suspension in West Virginia, one of the U.S. states with the most children in foster care ...

In May 2024, West Virginia Watch reported that DoHS spends $2.1 million annually on temporary housing, such as hotels, for foster children. According to the state's Child Welfare Dashboard ...

Under Gov. Patrick Morrisey, the state has spent more than $700,000 in emergency purchases in an effort to fix glaring issues ...