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Tag: West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources

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West Virginia knows how to keep kids out of foster care. But funding for key programs has been in short supply.

Avatar photo by Molly Born, The GroundTruth Project and Amelia Ferrell Knisely September 23rd, 2021September 23rd, 2021
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Foster kids need families to live with and state social workers to check on them. West Virginia doesn’t have enough of either.

Avatar photo by Molly Born, The GroundTruth Project and Amelia Ferrell Knisely September 22nd, 2021September 23rd, 2021
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West Virginia’s reliance on out-of-state group homes leaves some foster kids in unsafe, abusive situations

Avatar photo by Amelia Ferrell Knisely and Molly Born, The GroundTruth Project September 21st, 2021September 22nd, 2021
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Systemic abuse and neglect in WV group homes continues, with additional death reported

Avatar photo by Ian Karbal September 16th, 2021September 16th, 2021
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Amid a foster care crisis, WV didn’t pay private adoption agencies as promised

Avatar photo by Amelia Ferrell Knisely June 11th, 2021June 11th, 2021
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West Virginia leaders didn’t act and a hospital closed. Then, it happened again. Patients suffered the consequences.

Avatar photo by Lauren Peace October 16th, 2020October 15th, 2020
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‘This place helps us stay alive.’ When a West Virginia community lost its mental health services, the results were a matter of life and death.

Avatar photo by Lauren Peace October 15th, 2020October 21st, 2020
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Nursing homes were an easy mark for COVID-19. Inaction and a broken system put West Virginia’s residents at greater risk.

Avatar photo by Lauren Peace September 23rd, 2020October 12th, 2020
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The governor ‘tweaked’ a Harvard COVID map. Their experts say the state’s changes are flawed.

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Lucas Manfield and Gabriella Brown September 18th, 2020October 12th, 2020
Delegate Jeff Pack, R-Raleigh
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Scores of kids are unaccounted for in West Virginia’s troubled foster care system

Avatar photo by Amelia Ferrell Knisely September 17th, 2020October 12th, 2020

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