Forty to 100 people age out of foster care each year in DC. And for the last four years, at least 75 federal housing vouchers have gone unused.

One bill would break up the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs into two separate agencies, and the other would create a new ombudsman’s office within the city’s public child welfare agency.

A federal judge has granted preliminary approval for the settlement of a decades-long class-action lawsuit against D.C.’s Child and Family Services Agency.

Actress Kym Whitley joined new families for the 30th annual event.

Henri Cauvin is reporting over at the Washington Post that more than 100 employees were laid off today from D.C.’s Child and Family Services Agency. The layoffs were “prompted by citywide budget cuts and plans to restructure some jobs” at CFSA. Looming budget cuts notwithstanding, this is a fairly stunning development. Previously, the number of layoffs expected at CFSA has been estimated at closer to 54. And of course all of this comes wrapped…

Associated Press Banita Jacks, the D.C. woman who was convicted of murdering her four daughters in one of the most gruesome cases in this city’s history, has been sentenced to 120 years in prison, the Washington Post is reporting.In sentencing her yesterday, [D.C. Superior Court Judge Frederick] Weisberg, who has been in the bench for more than 30 years, said the case occupied his mind in the past two years like no other in…

Photo by erin m Susie Cambria, via her excellent Budget & Policy Corner blog, reminds us that there are 900 D.C. foster children who are hoping to get Christmas presents this holiday season, and the Child and Family Services Agency needs D.C. residents to help. If you’re able to purchase a few gifts for some needy local foster kids this year, you can find more details on this flier. Just tell CFSA how many…

Susie Cambria reports that amid Tuesday’s busy legislative session, the D.C. Council voted to confirm the appointment of Roque Gerald, who up until then had been serving as interim director of the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency. Gerald replaced Sharlynn Bobo after she resigned in the wake of the Banita Jacks case. Previously, Gerald served as CFSA deputy director….

The Post has a story up about the death of Sharlynn Bobo, the former director of the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency who resigned last year in the wake of the Banita Jacks case. Bobo died on Saturday due to complications related to pancreatic cancer, which she was diagnosed with only in November. She resigned from her position last summer. Her sudden death has shocked her former colleagues. Bobo was a graduate of D.C.’s…

The Examiner has word of the death of another child who had been recently brought to the attention of the District’s troubled Child and Family Services Agency. A 6-year-old girl, identified only by her initials, DHB, swallowed a handful of antidepressants prescribed to her father. She was taken to a hospital last week, and later died. Two weeks before, someone called the city’s child welfare hot line and reported the family was having “a housing…