Residential care facilities provide the structured, intensive care required for young people who have experienced trauma and ...

In the weeks after the brutal slaying of Emily Pike, the 14-year-old San Carlos Apache girl who went missing from a group home in Mesa, some child welfare experts say the system meant to protect ...

PHOENIX — After state regulators forced the closure of her group homes, the CEO of We Care Homes tells ABC15 she has “high standards,” and she was not negligent in caring for foster kids. Veronica ...

This story was originally produced by the Concord Monitor. NHPR is republishing it in partnership with the Granite State News Collaborative. Her case worker said Tennessee would be a new beginning.

Children in the foster care system with severe behavioral health issues and trauma are often treated in group homes that specialize in individualized care. In at least two states, there is space at ...

God help me get by. When I wrote this haiku, the only thing I had in mind was the need for people to understand that group care destroys lives almost instantaneously. As I sat in my friend’s living ...

To the editor: Undeniably, L.A. County is between a rock and hard place when caring for our foster youth with acute mental health needs. To be clear, this isn’t the majority of our kids, but it’s a ...