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Nicole Nesmith’s voice shakes a little when she recalls the night her child, Phoenix, revealed a painful secret. “Phoenix got really quiet and was like,...
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African-American children are much more likely to land in the Kansas foster care system than white children. A report from Strengthen Families Rebuild...
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Studies show even children raised by parents with money problems or substance abuse tend to fare better than those routed through a chronically troubled...
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Turmoil marks the troubled norm for foster care in Kansas. Now political, financial and legal forces look poised to slam the system into a new level of...
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This story was updated to include comments from the Kansas Department for Children and Families. A lawsuit filed Friday contends Kansas violates foster...
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A University of Kansas study linked tighter welfare rules to a growing foster care load. The state agency overseeing those programs backed those same...
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Kansas foster care contractors will now be paying a financial price for kids sleeping in their offices. The plan was made public Friday during a meeting...
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No children pulled into the Kansas foster care system have slept in offices so far this month. Having zero kids sleep in offices is significant for the...
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The number of children in foster care in Kansas went down in May and June, the first such two-month drop in more than a year. The Department for...
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A restructuring of how Kansas hires agencies to manage foster care and adoptions could allow widespread exclusion of placements with gay parents — a...