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Washington is under court order to keep foster youth from running away. So the state now has a team of “locators," social workers whose job it is to find…
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Rural Thurston County in Washington is the kind of place people move to for a little elbow room. But if you’re a teenager from the suburbs, life can be…
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State child welfare workers have outlined plans to implement new training and data management practices, hoping to finally push Washington's foster care…
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A judge in Bellingham has ordered the state of Washington to do more to locate foster children who run away.Monday's decision is the latest chapter in a…
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Adoptions are usually private affairs, sealed forever in court documents and known only to the families involved. But a recent decision by Idaho's…
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Washington state could do a better job when it comes to assisting families who’ve adopted children from foster care, according to a report by the state…
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Close to 9,000 children were in foster care in Washington state last year, but the majority of these kids will eventually return home. Today, as part of…
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An independent panel that oversees the state’s foster care system is going away. And it isn’t because of budget cuts. The panel was scheduled to disband…
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About 1,160 children in King County spent last month in the custody of the Division of Child and Family Services. Most were separated from their parents…
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http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-968431.mp3Decades after the federal government stopped taking Native American children…