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This community arts organization gets young people involved with social-justice themed art — and out of the juvenile and criminal justice systems.

Beto Yarce got his start selling jewelry at the Fremont Market. Now he helps low-income people start their own businesses. 

Health care professionals said her best friend would die. Lauren Davis wasn’t buying it. A remarkable story ensued.

Each year, Crosscut honors a handful of locals who have shown extraordinary grit and leadership.

Lousy pay, a toxic workplace and excessive workloads are driving away the people who serve vulnerable kids and their families.

Washington state lost nearly one in five foster homes between 2008 and 2015 amid complaints of discord and disarray.

Brandon Fogg, who has experience both as a foster child and foster parent, says foster care needs a celebrity champion.

When foster children spend the night in a hotel or in a foster home that agrees to keep them for only one night at a time, they typically don’t make it to school the next day.

More than a decade after the courts ordered the state to clean up its foster care program, kids are still left rootless, vulnerable.