Tag: DCF
Public health officials with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services and the Kansas Department for Children and Families recently discussed approaching an aging population and their…
TOPEKA — Kansas Department for Children and Families secretary Laura Howard on Monday said the number of children in foster care has dropped, marking some improvement in the state’s long-criticized child welfare system. “Lots of…
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ foster care homes have not been meeting health and safety requirements, even though state inspectors visited regularly, federal inspectors found in an audit. Foster care children have been living…
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ child welfare agency balked at releasing records about a 3-year-old girl whose battered body was found this month, despite a 2018 law that aimed to make such documents more…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas governor plans to merge a state agency that has been under fire in recent years over abused childrens deaths with another social services department in the hopes that the state…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas health department employees who will handle complicated applications for Medicaid health coverage will work out of state Department for Children and Families offices. The agencies announced a partnership Monday to…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A dispute is escalating in Kansas between top Republicans and Democratic Gov. Laura Kellys administration over looser rules for people who receive food assistance. The state Department for Children and Families…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Abused and neglected children are again sleeping overnight in the offices of Kansas foster care contractors because homes cannot be found for them quickly enough. Since January, when Democratic Gov. Laura…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has terminated grants to two nonprofit agencies for services for troubled families and plans to renegotiate the grant terms to four agencies for services for foster children, Democratic Gov. Laura…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Democratic Gov.-elect Laura Kelly announced Thursday that she will replace the top administrator at Kansas troubled child welfare agency and successfully pushed the departing leader to put new, major grants to…
