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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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Foster care-to-prison pipeline “alive and well”

Inmates at Washington's Monroe Correctional Complex who are alumni of the foster-care system convened a…
Allegra Abramo
Allegra AbramoDecember 10, 2019
Foster Care

WA foster kids sent to out-of-state group homes with checkered records

After a report by a government-appointed watchdog group found Washington foster kids sent to a…
Allegra Abramo
Allegra AbramoFebruary 5, 2019
Foster Care

Supreme Court ruling bolsters abused foster kids’ lawsuits against state

In what may prove a watershed moment for the state’s foster care system, Washington’s Supreme…
Levi Pulkkinen
Levi PulkkinenNovember 1, 2018
Foster CareGovernment

WA sent abused kids to jail-like Iowa group home with “abusive” practices

Youths entrusted to Washington’s foster-care system have endured “abusive” practices in a jail-like Iowa group…
Allegra Abramo
Allegra AbramoOctober 17, 2018
Foster Care

Foster kids kept by state in hotels at record rate

Abused and neglected kids in Washington State’s overwhelmed foster care system were housed at hotels…
Allegra Abramo
Allegra AbramoSeptember 21, 2018
Foster Care

As foster care crisis festers, kin who care for neglected kids receive little state support

Kinship caregivers such as grandparents, aunts, uncles and close family care for an estimated 43,000 children in…
Allegra Abramo
Allegra AbramoAugust 10, 2018
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