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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.

Signs like this have spread as pharmacies try to avoid robberies.

Washington State has made an aggressive attempt to crack down on the prescription drug epidemic by passing strict new rules governing pain management. But even those may not be enough to stanch the...

Dr. Rosemary Orr didn’t see it coming that day. It was the morning after Mother’s Day. She needed a ride to work, so her 24-year-old son Robin drove her.

Ballard High School: There can be homeless students in any school. Identifying homeless high school students often becomes more difficult.

Ben Danielson, M.D., is medical director of the Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic of Seattle Children’s Hospital.