Last week’s federal audit of West Virginia’s Child Protective Services was alarming. According to the report, the state failed to properly investigate most child abuse and neglect referrals it received. For kinship families, this isn’t a distant policy failure, it’s a crisis that plays out at kitchen tables when a child is removed and relatives are left scrambling for answers. News

Federal audit: WV didn't properly investigate bulk of child abuse, neglect referrals

By Amelia Ferrell Knisely West Virginia Watch

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I know this turmoil firsthand as a former kinship foster parent who lived through the fear, confusion and gaps in the system. In the years since, I have advanced my social work education and nonprofit advocacy to help understand, and hopefully fix, what goes wro

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