Foster Care

Tuesday’s hearing was only the latest example of legislative criticism of the Department of Social Services.

The report says 978 children went missing from foster care in the state in 2019.

The Greater Ville organization seeks to provide more preventative care services for troubled youth.

Three St. Louis siblings recently had their adoption finalized, even in the midst of a pandemic. The children, ages 7, 6 and 5, were adopted by an Oregon…

As foster care administrators in the region try to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus within their agencies, they are preparing for what could be…

An estimated 30% of Missouri youth in foster care or group homes are on psychotropic drugs of some sort — nearly twice the national average for kids that…

Thousands of kids in Missouri's foster care system are likely to benefit from a first-of-its-kind legal settlement under which state officials have...

For the first time in two decades, a growing number of children in St. Louis and Missouri are in foster care, and the opioid epidemic is a driving…

Since Missouri voters elected Eric Greitens governor, his wife, Sheena Greitens, has been working on behalf of a group that doesn’t usually get much…

Melanie Barrier went into the Florida foster care system as a newborn. She lived in 20 foster homes before she was adopted at age 10.Stability existed in…