foster care

An email from a former foster care official claims his colleagues are collecting big hotel rewards for booking youth in their care.

Advocates say better accounting of deaf and hard-of-hearing children in the state’s care and better access to translators is needed.

Judge Janis Jack took the state to task about the use of drugs and documented instances of errors. The state said it was concerned but disputed whether court has jurisdiction.

Relative caregivers, like grandparents who want to keep kids out of foster care, usually get half as much state assistance as strangers who take in children.

Texas’ foster system has dropped hundreds of runaway kids from its care over the past five years. 170 of those kids were minors when the state stopped its relationship. One legislator says the state is 'washing its hands' of the most vulnerable youth — youth who often end up being sexually abused or trafficked while missing.

After a murder-suicide in 2018, a reporter spent years investigating Texas’ troubled foster care system. Too often, it prioritized terminating parental rights over keeping birth families intact.

Stephanie Muth, the new commissioner of the Department of Family and Protective Services, was given a warm welcome and a laundry list of fixes from a federal judge Friday.

Texas Foster Care and Adoption Services was the subject of TPR's 'Justice Ignored' series, which learned that an executive at the agency was accused of raping his grand niece but kept his job for months even after the state found it likely happened. TFCAS said the state didn't tell them about the abuse.

Despite a child sexual assault investigation, a San Antonio foster executive kept his job at Texas Foster Care & Adoption Services.

A spokesperson told The Texas Tribune that all employees are trained before supervising youth. DFPS Commissioner Jaime Masters apologized to the child and her mother.

At least 48 Texas children are housed at facilities run by organizations under an investigation launched by two U.S. senators.

Over the past five years, the state has ended its responsibilities for minor children 170 times — despite the youth being missing or having run away.