foster care

One year ago, a 16 year-old boy sat in a cafeteria at a group home for teens in Kalamazoo and tossed a piece of bread at another boy. The adults in the…

Bethany Christian Services now says it’s open to placing children in homes with LGBTQ parents. The change applies nationwide.Bethany is headquartered in…

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has created a new task force with the goal of preventing and eliminating systemic racism in the…

The creation of a new, bipartisan task force to address problems in the state's adoption and foster care system was announced Thursday by Michigan…

A West Michigan-based child services agency says there’s been an increase in people looking to become foster parents. Bethany Christian Services is based…

The family of Cornelius Fredericks, a 16-year-old boy in foster care who died after being improperly restrained by youth facility staff, filed a lawsuit…

The birth mom was due in March 2019, but “typically delivers a couple of weeks early,” Tara Lynn Lee told the couple in South Carolina. They knew Lee…

Today on Stateside, the fate of auto insurance reform in Michigan hangs in the balance as the state's Democratic governor and GOP-controlled Legislature…

Today on Stateside, amidst a rise in hate crimes against both Jews and Muslims in the world, leaders of both faith communities in Southeast Michigan are…

Governor Whitmer says she agrees with a federal judge that a computer system that’s supposed to help kids in foster care needs to be fixed or scrapped.A…