foster care

The federal judge overseeing the decade-long lawsuit against Texas for conditions in its foster care system cut this week’s hearing short. She proposed all parties involved, including the governor, “cut to the chase” to identify solutions.

Increased oversight and lack of funding mean hundreds of children spend their nights in hotels and churches and on office floors.

A federal judge in 2015 found that Texas violates foster children's constitutional rights. At a hearing this week, court monitors found some progress in reforming the foster care system — but also noted several concerns.

U.S. District Judge Janis Jack says she will give state officials until May to make progress on her orders to overhaul the state's foster care system, or face hefty fines.

Federal Judge Janis Graham Jack of Corpus Christi said in a hearing Thursday that the state has let for-profit providers endanger the lives of vulnerable kids in the care of Child Protective Services, or CPS.

The nonprofit Court Appointed Special Advocates of Tarrant County, which advocates for children placed in foster care, is struggling to recruit…

On an April morning just two months shy of his fourth birthday, A.B., a toddler, was found unresponsive on the floor of his foster home, bleeding from his…

Americans who have spent time in foster care are far more likely than other adults to lack a college degree, health insurance and a stable health care…

From Texas Standard : The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services recently released new internal guidelines that cut the caseloads of foster...

Nearly four years after a federal judge first ruled that Texas violated foster children’s civil rights by placing them in a system where rape and…

From Texas Standard: A new commissioner will take over at the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services in December. Gov. Greg Abbott announced...

A federal appeals court has ordered Texas to make significant changes to improve its foster care system. A three-judge panel at the Fifth Circuit Court...