Shelters too often home for Tucson's abused kids

Shelters too often home for Tucson's abused kids

Abused and neglected children in Pima County are placed in group homes and emergency shelters rather than foster families at the highest rate in Arizona and more than twice the national average.

DISLODGED: Children’s shelter evicted from property

DISLODGED: Children’s shelter evicted from property

A children’s shelter that opened with much fanfare only a year ago now has no license, no home and may have no future.

Shelter care: More foster kids, long stays

Shelter care: More foster kids, long stays

Crisis shelters and group homes are intended to be temporary placements for older foster children, a stop along the way to a permanent home -- either back with parents or to adoption.

Oklahoma children's shelters worry national child welfare experts

Oklahoma children's shelters worry national child welfare experts

Oklahoma's use of shelters to house abused and neglected babies and other children is cause for major concern, according to several national child welfare experts.

Overcrowding of DHS shelters for children violates Oklahoma state law

Ex-state ward sues DCYF for child abuse

Ex-state ward sues DCYF for child abuse

A former State House page who spent his youth as a ward of the state is suing the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families in U.S. District Court charging that he suffered years of abuse while in state care.

Children’s shelter pros, cons aired

Children’s shelter pros, cons aired

Rhode Island’s top child-welfare director testified before a Senate committee Wednesday that the state’s plan to develop “immediate response” foster homes to replace the state’s three emergency children’s shelters represents a shift in thinking nationwide about the best way to care for young children.

Closing of children’s shelters delayed until June 30

Closing of children’s shelters delayed until June 30

Two of the state’s three children’s shelters will remain open until June 30, and a third will be converted into an emergency-response foster home for neglected or abused children, the state’s top child welfare official confirmed Tuesday.

New centre aims to keep kids out of foster care

New centre aims to keep kids out of foster care

With one in 20 First Nations children taken away from their families and put into foster care, its hoped a unique new women's centre in Vancouver will provide the opportunity for a new life to mothers and their children.

Note: looks like one of those feminist run woman's shelters to me.