child welfare

The state launched the MiFamily Together program in 25 counties at the start of October.

Today, a conversation with Kate Wells about Flint’s groundbreaking child health and welfare program, and the gained interest for a possible Upper Peninsula expansion.

A new report on children in Michigan is revealing a mixed bag when it comes to measures of child wellbeing.

The Michigan Office of Children's Ombudsman is now the Office of the Child Advocate. It adds oversight of child welfare within the juvenile justice system to its duties.

The legislation would close loopholes in current state law that allow parents to consent to their child’s marriage if the child is 16 or older. Kids under 16 can also marry if a judge also signs off.

One year ago, a 16 year-old boy sat in a cafeteria at a group home for teens in Kalamazoo and tossed a piece of bread at another boy. The adults in the…

Governor Whitmer says she agrees with a federal judge that a computer system that’s supposed to help kids in foster care needs to be fixed or scrapped.A…

More children in Michigan are dying because of abuse or neglect compared to a decade ago. Back then, the state settled a federal lawsuit, promising to…

Have abused children been put in greater harm's way by the very people who are supposed to protect them? Reports in the Lansing State Journal point to an…

The Michigan Supreme Court this week handed a big win to parents with disabilities in child welfare cases.If the state removes a child from her home and…