In the last month of Zoey Felix's short life, Kansas child welfare officials made seven attempts to contact her family. Five home visits, a letter and a phone call by child protective services in ...

The Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) is recalculating each household’s SNAP benefits based on USDA guidance.

The Kansas Department for Children and Families is reviewing a memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) after the ...

The death of 5-year-old Zoey Felix has raised alarms about child welfare oversight after neighbors and agencies reported concerns about her safety before she was raped and killed Oct. 2. While Mickel ...

The Office of the Child Advocate said it will review all reports, contacts and documents on how DCF and other agencies ...

The new directions come as two federal court rulings ordered the United States Department of Agriculture to disperse the ...

The DCF model is powerful but highly sensitive to key inputs: discount rate, perpetual growth rate, and growth assumptions. Choosing the right discount rate is crucial; too low or too high a rate can ...

A review of the events leading up to a 2-year-old’s death by blunt force injury to the head found the state’s child protection agency and judicial staff didn’t follow proper procedures in handling the ...

This story has been updated. Lawmakers gathered on Wednesday to hear testimony from state auditors and representatives of the Department of Children and Families about a recent report which found that ...

Florida Department of Children and Families employees cannot necessarily be held liable for abuse of adoptive children just because there are foster children in the same home, an appellate court ruled ...