A 10-YEAR-OLD girl living in fear of her alcoholic mother and ice-using stepdad cried on the phone to her overseas relatives for help as overloaded caseworkers put her case aside for almost two years.

EVERETT, Wash. — A report concluded there was no wrongdoing on the part of the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) in 4-year-old Ariel Garcia's death, but a language barrier and a case ...

Around 40 Michigan Department of Health and Human Services caseworkers held an informational picket Wednesday afternoon, saying the state agency has failed to maintain adequate staffing levels to ...

PHOENIX — Illegal actions by supervisors, overloaded caseworkers and flawed procedures for handling reports of abuse led to thousands of cases going uninvestigated by Child Protective Services, an ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – KRQE has reported on several high-profile cases where the New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department (CYFD) placed abused children back with their abusers, where they were ...

THE OTHER DRIVER DIED AT THE SCENE. WELL, NOW TO AN EYE OPENING AUDIT OF THE STATE’S ELDERLY PROTECTIVE SERVICES PROGRAM. A NEW REPORT FOUND IT IS UNDERSTAFFED, UNDERFUNDED AND IN SOME CASES NOT ...

Many caseworkers are “drowning” and are assigned well above the accreditation standard of 15 cases each, he said. Missey recounted speaking with a caseworker in Liberty this past week who said the 38 ...

EVERETT, Wash. — A report concluded there was no wrongdoing on the part of the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) in 4-year-old Ariel Garcia's death, but a language barrier and a case ...

EVERETT, Wash. — A report concluded there was no wrongdoing on the part of the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) in 4-year-old Ariel Garcia's death, but a language barrier and a case ...