Kansas foster care

More than 50 foster kids are missing in Kansas at a given time. The state said it is making progress to fix the problem, but critics say it could do more.

The Division of the Child Advocate was created in 2021 to oversee the child welfare system. Its most recent annual report is the most detailed case breakdown in the young agency's existence.

Kansas lawmakers are holding a special meeting to review foster care issues.

Kansas was supposed to make sure that foster care providers stopped making kids sleep in offices and similar places by the end of 2021.

Advocates want Kansas to expand food stamps to keep more kids out of state custody.

A foster child was sexually assaulted while left unattended in 2018. Now, the state and its private contractor are settling in court.

Rural foster parents have the same struggles all rural Kansans do, but more legal deadlines adds additional stressors in their life.

Foster agencies have spent years trying to prevent children from sleeping in offices and bouncing between foster homes, but the problems continue.

The SOUL Family program is specially designed to help older foster youth who are aging out of care.

Guardians ad litem say their heavy caseloads make it hard to be everywhere at once. Foster parents want them to know the children they represent better.