Search
DCist Logo

child welfare

All Stories

Apr 17, 2023

Some Face Homelessness When Leaving Foster Care, Despite D.C. Having Housing Vouchers To Help Them

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.

Feb 27, 2008

Two Conflicting Pictures of D.C.’s Child Welfare Agency

There’s been a lot more attention placed on the goings on at D.C.’s Child and Family Services Agency since the gruesome discovery of the murdered daughters of Banita Jacks, and rightly so. But two different stories in today’s edition of the Examiner paint nearly opposite portraits of what might be going wrong inside the agency. First is Bill Myers’ story, about how the principal of Latin American Montessori Bilingual School called the city’s abuse hot…

 
Terms of Use |WAMU Privacy Notice
WAMU 88.5 | American University RadioMailing Address: PO Box 98101 | Washington, DC 20090-8101
Station Address: 4401 Connecticut Ave, NW | Washington, DC 20008 |
Combined Federal Campaign (CFC): #91855
© 2026 All Rights Reserved.