Department of Human Services DoHS Secretary Alex Mayer vowed, on March 10, 2025, to make changes to West Virginia’s troubled foster care system while children continue to live in hotels and ...
The West Virginia Constitution mentions several times the guarantee of “life” and “liberty.”  These are inalienable rights and the government has a responsibility to ensure that they are protected.
A federal judge in Charleston, West Virginia on Feb. 28, 2025 threw out a lawsuit brought by foster children in 2019 against ...
State officials can no longer hide behind this lawsuit to avoid the consequences of their political decisions. Now the ...
A West Virginia judge ordered that a monitor be put in place to oversee state child protective services placements in hotels ...
A federal judge dismissed years-long litigation against West Virginia’s child welfare system last week based not on the ...
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 ...
Fairmont State University, working with the West Virginia CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) Association, has released a study showing how volunteers help kids in the state’s foster care system.
The blame squarely lies with West Virginia state government,” U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin wrote in an opinion ...
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 ...