Officials will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for a process that officials say will make more racially equitable decisions.
In every state, governments charge parents for the cost of foster care when children are taken away. When that happens, NPR found, poor parents can't make ends meet, so families are kept apart longer.
At one point a child welfare official threatened to take custody of the kids and families refused to let them go. "I told them I couldn't, that I wouldn't let my kid go," one woman said.
Police found them living in squalor. Their parents were charged after an investigation revealed "a long and continuous history of severe physical and emotional abuse."
Recently retired Nevada Supreme Court Justice Nancy Saitta said she left the bench with two years left in her term to spend more time with her family and donate more energy on behalf of the state’s
A report on child homelessness out this week ranked Nevada 44th among the states. The National Center on Family Homelessness at the American Institutes...
After 16-month-old Michell Momox-Caselis was killed earlier this month in an apparent murder-suicide involving her foster father, Clark County’s child...
Nevada Supreme Court Justice Nancy Saitta has established a blue ribbon committee to examine the deficiencies in the Clark County child welfare system...
In Mohave County, Arizona, increased court costs are affecting the county’s ability to provide counsel for indigent defendants. The Havasu News says the...
The Southwest continues to earn dismal marks for child well-being. New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada rank in the bottom five of an annual national report...
