The West Virginia Department of Human Services (DoHS) announced assistance for those residing in areas impacted by recent ...

Changes could be coming to how child abuse and neglect cases are reported and investigated by West Virginia’s Child ...

The West Virginia Department of Human Services has been named in a wrongful death lawsuit after a child died while in foster ...

Department of Human Services DoHS Secretary Alex Mayer vowed, on March 10, 2025, to make changes to West Virginia’s troubled foster care system while children continue to live in hotels and ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — -Kanawha County Judge Maryclaire Akers says her decision to appoint a monitor to the Department of Human ...

A hearing was held in Kanawha County Friday over concerns of foster children living in hotels and a 4-H camp which led to a ...

Department of Human Services officials are expected to appear in a Kanawha County courtroom on Friday to answer to recent incidents, including a suicide attempt, with foster children in state custody ...

Changes could be coming to how child abuse and neglect cases are reported and investigated by West Virginia’s Child Protective Services if lawmakers pass a bill under consideration. House Bill 2377, ...

Members of a West Virginia Senate committee decided to lay over a bill calling for an independent audit of the state’s child ...

Kanawha County Judge Maryclaire Akers appointed Cindy Largent-Hill, the Director of the Division of Children Service’s for ...

Kanawha County Judge Maryclaire Akers says her decision to appoint a monitor to the Department of Human Services at Friday’s ...