Michigan

By Vivek Sankaran In late 2023, deputies in Monroe County, Michigan, found two young children living in a tent behind a house. It was November. The tent was covered with a tarp, heated by a small space heater and sat on the cold ground.

Michigan jurists call on lawmakers to protect parents from neglect accusations when they're unable to manage teens’ mental health crises.

A Georgia child welfare agency director says she’s open to an audit of past drug tests, but it's likely too late for one mom.

The first tribal and state governments have been approved by the Biden administration for an alternative path to licensing kinship caregivers

Two former Lakeside Academy staffers pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter in the 2020 death of 16-year-old Cornelius Fredericks.

A Michigan court ruled that parents with children in foster care cannot be denied visitation based on positive drug tests alone.

The chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court had a lot to say about the child welfare system in her 12-page dissent of a recent appeal

Young people with foster care experience are pervious to the sense of connection that sharing their story can bring, writes Brina Williams.

There are many tragic outcomes from residential care that go overlooked if a death or a celebrity aren't involved, writes Dawn Post.