When Heather Preston adopted her two sons, finding them care became her full-time job. After the siblings, whom Preston adopted from foster care, moved from a small southern Iowa town into her Des ...

There is a deep-seated distrust of the child welfare system within the Black community, stemming from a history of racial bias and systemic inequities. The fear of children being “snatched up” by “the ...

I oversee The Plain Dealer's computer-assisted reporting program and am a longtime investigative journalist who has spent much of my 20 years in the business covering health care issues. Before coming ...

A reporter seeks answers on the use of residential treatment programs nationwide — and the rationale for sending kids away ...

The academic in me is never going to say causality,” said Harvard's Jeremy Faust. “But the person with a functioning brain is ...

Asian Americans are disproportionately affected by hepatitis B, especially by chronic infections. Years of community work ...