Georgia

After state denies wrongdoing, case continues over formerly homeless Georgia mom billed $13,000 for her kids in foster care.

A state committee has been investigating the crisis of parents who relinquish kids when they can't get adequate mental health treatment.

Evin Winkelman Richardson surveyed 80 caregiver couples across Georgia and found that the stronger their relationship, the more likely they would continue fostering.

By Sarah Winograd This column relates accounts of family engagement by a nonprofit working to keep families together while avoiding child welfare involvement. The names of the family members have been changed to provide anonymity.

Georgia Students will no longer be expelled for missing class. Instead, schools must ask where the kids are, and why they're absent.

On Monday, a panel of Georgia lawmakers met with child welfare workers, mental health providers and others to discuss the issue of kids left in psychiatric care.

A Georgia mother whose poverty led to the loss of her children is challenging the state’s practice of billing poor parents for foster care. 

By Sarah Winograd Five children were left waiting at a day care late on Friday night, May 9, 2025, in Cobb County, Georgia. Their parents, Marcus and Danielle, had both been arrested within the same week for driving with suspended licenses.

Former foster youth testified at the first-ever hearing of the newly created Senate Study Committee on Additional Services and Resources for Transition-Age Youth in Foster Care