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A new law standardizing Kansas’ response to child-on-child sexual assault could cost $126,000 and result in more than 3,200 treatment referrals a year....
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Social workers can perform a myriad of tasks. Some check on children in abusive homes and some train foster families. Others support patients through...
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Twice, Rep. Jarrod Ousley introduced bills that would create a watchdog over the Kansas agency in charge of looking after children from troubled...
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Before Laura Kelly took over as governor, the Kansas Department for Children and Families overhauled which private companies would manage its child...
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Kansas Gov.-elect Laura Kelly announced Thursday that she’s replacing the head of the state’s embattled child welfare agency, and at the same time...
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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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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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The alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl while she was waiting for a foster care placement in May has many asking about consequences for the contractor,...
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In the wake of rape charge filed in an attack on a 13-year-old girl in the office of a foster care contractor, Kansas lawmakers said Tuesday they’ll...
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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...