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Washington

The Long Way Home series

10/20/2025

So What Do I Do Now? The Impossible Leap We Ask Youth to Make

Ángela Banks

In the first piece in The Long Way Home series, Ángela Banks explores the obstacles that aging out stacks on for foster youth.

10/16/2025

Beware of Adoptive Parents Like the Woman on 169th Street

Lexie Lee

She didn’t adopt me because she wanted me. She adopted me because it made her look good, writes Lexie Lee.

9/29/2025

Washington Eases Foster Care Licensing for Relative Caregivers

Sara Tiano

A newly streamlined process for kinship caregivers opens access to financial assistance, counseling, respite and other resources.

9/18/2025

State Cuts in Washington Scale Back Once-Ambitious Preschool Options for Low-Income Families

Michael Fitzgerald

Washington's well-regarded Early Childhood Education and Assessment Program (ECEAP) endures cuts amid a multi-billion-dollar budget deficit.

9/11/2025

The One Thing I Could Never Have

Lexie Lee

What happens when the one person who should have been your safe place becomes the one who hurts you the most?, writes Lexie Lee.

So What Do I Do Now? The Impossible Leap We Ask Youth to Make

9/2/2025

Unrooted: How Foster Care Fractured My Sibling Bonds and My Sense of Self

Ángela Banks

Youth Voices Rising Washington Op-ed contest winner writes about the impact that foster care's separation of her siblings had on her life.

8/26/2025

Washington Foster Youth Lose Key Educational Support Amid State’s Budget Crisis

Sara Tiano

A program that offers Washington foster youth personalized support through graduation has been cut due to the state's budget crisis.

6/20/2025

To Relieve Overcrowding, Washington Opens New Youth Detention Center Inside Adult Prison Complex

Sara Tiano

By Sara Tiano

Harbor Heights, Washington state’s newest juvenile rehabilitation facility, is located within an adult prison complex. Provided photo.
In an upbeat June 13 press release, the Washington State Department of Children, Youth and Families announced it had “welcomed the first cohort of young men to Harbor Heights, the state’s newest juvenile rehabilitation facility.” 

6/10/2025

Family Law Experts Push Legal Framework to Guide Guardian Ad Litem Reform in Washington State

Kelsey Turner, Investigate West

In Washington state, a ‘model code’ would have only licensed mental health professionals making parenting plan recommendations to the court.

6/6/2025

A Washington Mother Had Custody of Her Kids and Protection From Her Abuser. Then a Guardian Ad Litem Got Involved.

Kelsey Turner, Investigate West

A Washington mother filed a lawsuit alleging that a guardian ad litem and her abuser’s attorney colluded to flip the narrative against her.

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