foster care

The new contract model comes in the wake of a statewide demand for juvenile justice reform.

State of Opportunity began in 2012. Since then, the State of Opportunity team has brought us hundreds of stories exploring the barriers to success that...

The odds are stacked against the more than 20,000 young people who age out of foster care each year. Nearly half drop out of high school, and those who...

Aging out of foster care and into college is a difficult transition that few make successfully. A few states, including Michigan, are now trying to change that.

A new report is raising questions about how Michigan's child welfare system treats minorities. The report finds African-Americans, Latinos, and Native...

Governor Rick Snyder says the state could do a better job protecting foster children if it changed the way it paid for the service.The governor unveiled a…