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Here's how an AI tool may flag parents with disabilities
PITTSBURGH (AP) — For the two weeks that the Hackneys’ baby girl lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed weak from dehydration, her parents rarely left her side, sometimes sleeping on the fold-out sofa in the room. They stayed with their daughter around the clock when she was moved to a...
Justice signs bill splitting up West Virginia health agency
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s governor has signed a bill splitting the ailing Department of Health and Human Resources into three new departments. Gov. Jim Justice signed the bill Saturday that separates the massive agency into the departments of Health, Health...
Bill to dissolve WV's ailing DHHR headed to the governor
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill that would dissolve West Virginia’s Department of Health and Human Resources and separate it into three new departments is heading to the desk of Gov. Jim Justice, just under a year after he vetoed a different proposal to split up the ailing agency. ...
Georgia child welfare agency wants fewer sent to foster care
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers say they plan to rewrite a bill that would slow the flow of children into foster care, after juvenile court judges and children's advocates raised concerns that the measure helps the state's child welfare agency at the expense of children. As...
West Virginia House OKs bill to break ailing DHHR into three
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A bill that would dissolve West Virginia's ailing Department of Health and Human Resources and separate it into three new departments passed the House overwhelmingly Tuesday after lawmakers voiced concerns about abuse and neglect allegations facing the state's largest...
West Virginia House OKs bill expanding advocate's authority
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's House of Delegates unanimously passed a bill Wednesday to expand the authority of the state foster care advocate to investigate allegations of abuse and neglect. Before the 100-member House voted in unison in favor, Deputy House Speaker...
Tennessee children services agency seeks $26M to curb issues
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee agency that has faced heightened scrutiny for failures in oversight of the state's most vulnerable children is requesting a quick influx of $26.6 million, aimed at keeping youth from having to sleep in administrative state offices or in transitional housing,...
Georgia faces hurdles to get foster children out of hotels
ATLANTA (AP) — Dozens of Georgia’s most troubled foster children are housed in hotels or state offices each night, because the state can’t find a better place for them to stay. But officials trying to end the practice face fights with the state’s own insurer and a lack of treatment beds. ...
Editorial Roundup: Texas
Austin American-Statesman. January 27, 2023. Editorial: Much work left to fix Texas’ foster care failures A new federal report on Texas’ failing foster care system makes clear the state has a long way to go before Texans can be confident the agency is adequately...
Mississippi increasing pace of adoptions from foster care
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's foster care system is on pace for more adoptions during the current budget year than the previous one. Department of Child Protection Services Commissioner Andrea Sanders told lawmakers Tuesday that judges finalized adoption of 644 foster...
