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Foster CareWatchdog

Washington misses its deadline to bring foster kids home from troubled out-of-state group facilities

When a Michigan boy died in May after being restrained by employees at a Sequel…
Rachel Nielsen
Rachel NielsenDecember 2, 2020
Foster CareWatchdog

Washington foster kids detail abuse at Sequel group homes

Washington foster youths recount mistreatment at out-of-state Sequel Youth & Family Services facilities. Advocates appeal…
Rachel Nielsen
Rachel NielsenDecember 2, 2020
Foster Care

Washington housing foster care kids at state offices in record-breaking numbers

The number of times that state child-welfare workers housed foster children overnight in government offices…
Rachel Nielsen
Rachel NielsenSeptember 7, 2020
COVID-19Foster Care

COVID-19 spreads in WA’s foster-care group home system; operators fear state’s wrath

With COVID-19 spreading into Washington’s system of foster care group homes, operators of the facilities…
Rachel Nielsen
Rachel NielsenAugust 14, 2020
COVID-19Foster Care

Amid COVID-19, ex-foster youth struggle – will WA match other states’ rescue plans?

Young adults in the foster care system, who are disproportionately people of color, were already…
Rachel Nielsen
Rachel NielsenJune 3, 2020
COVID-19Foster Care

Birth parents fight to visit kids in foster system during pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has translated into severe unhappiness for parents of children taken into Washington…
Rachel Nielsen
Rachel NielsenApril 22, 2020
Foster Care

Foster-care funding falls short of ending hotel-stay crisis

With Washington forcing a record number of traumatized foster youth into overnight hotel stays that…
Rachel Nielsen
Rachel NielsenMarch 19, 2020
Foster Care

Surge in abused, neglected kids housed at hotels ‘just another level of trauma’

Record numbers of foster children are sleeping in hotels and state offices as Washington State…
Allegra Abramo
Allegra AbramoJanuary 30, 2020
Foster Care

Whistleblower status proposed to help harassed foster parents

In the midst of the ongoing crisis in the Washington foster care system, foster parents…
Rachel Nielsen
Rachel NielsenJanuary 15, 2020
Foster Care

Foster parents struggle against retaliation by state caseworkers

In addition to the shortage of foster homes in Washington state, foster parents often cite…
Rachel Nielsen
Rachel NielsenJanuary 15, 2020
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