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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.

(From left) Alex Link, Liam Downey, Chandra Farnsworth, Sean Downey, Frederick Dobler and Louis Messina in full Downey Bros. regalia.

"Maybe I write some weird, different songs," says Maiah Manser, "but they’ll still go together because they’re all me."

"I’m very observant. I watch other people, and I go to a lot of shows. When I go out it looks like I’m kickin’ it, but I’m really studying."

An affordable housing development in West Seattle.