Michigan

A Michigan court ruled that parents with children in foster care cannot be denied visitation based on positive drug tests alone.

The chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court had a lot to say about the child welfare system in her 12-page dissent of a recent appeal

Young people with foster care experience are pervious to the sense of connection that sharing their story can bring, writes Brina Williams.

There are many tragic outcomes from residential care that go overlooked if a death or a celebrity aren't involved, writes Dawn Post.

States should draft their child welfare contracts to prevent a back-door entrance for taxpayer-funded discrimination, writes Daniele Gerard.

Michigan recently announced its plan to create a task force to support LGBTQ families looking to foster or adopt following a settlement with a private charity that excludes same-sex families.

Michigan will again contract with foster agencies that don't work with LGBTQ couples due to a Supreme Court decision, but the state reiterated its support of these families.

A National Center for Juvenile Justice report estimates a roughly 30% drop in the number of youth charged as adults from 2015 to 2019.

Less than four years after courts across the land began to release “juvenile lifers” from prison, evidence out of Michigan shows that few of the released prisoners have resumed committing grievous crimes.