Child and Family Service officials raised concerns for years about problems with the way abuse investigations were being conducted by child welfare agencies, writing in reports that key witnesses were ...

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PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) has agreed to pay $9 million to a woman who alleges that she was abused in her childhood foster home. The ...

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The National Association of Seadogs (NAS), Frigate Deck, has donated books and other educational materials to the Children of Heritage School, run in partnership with Blessed Home and Faith Foster ...

Ashley Miller is shown in a photograph from her 7th grade yearbook, when she attended Jason Lee Middle School in Tacoma, now known as Hilltop Heritage Middle School. Washington state has agreed to pay ...

Content warning: This story contains descriptions of child sexual, physical, and mental abuse. For Ashley Miller, the hardest part about the sexual, physical, and mental abuse she suffered during her ...

Washington state to pay $9 million in foster care abuse settlement case DSHS failed to detect or act on abuse, missing visits and background checks Lawsuit shows gaps in oversight of foster placements ...

ASAP's "B.A.B. Book Report Challenge" uses comic books to discuss gun violence and substance misuse. — The competition encourages reading, critical thinking and family involvement with a PS5 prize. — ...

Washington state has agreed to pay $9 million to settle a lawsuit over failures that led a girl to be placed in a Pierce County foster home where she was subjected to severe sexual abuse in the 1990s ...