CHARLESTON – If a child has to leave home and enter the foster care system, the hope is...
Oct 06, 2021
West Virginia knows how to keep kids out of foster care. But funding for key programs has been in short supply.
Editor's note: This is Part 3 in a three-part series, investigating West Virginia's foster care system. Read Part...
Sep 23, 2021
Foster kids need families to live with and state social workers to check on them. West Virginia doesn’t have enough of either
Editor's note: This is Part 2 in a three-part series, investigating West Virginia's foster care system. Read Part...
Sep 22, 2021
West Virginia’s reliance on out-of-state group homes leaves some foster kids in unsafe, abusive situations
In early 2015, West Virginia state inspectors visited an all-boys group home in Grove City, Pennsylvania. There were...
Sep 21, 2021
Essential Appalachia
Most days since the COVID-19 pandemic started, Alexis Batausa has laced up his running shoes and headed for...
May 06, 2021
ON THE GROUND IN ALLEN JUNCTION, WV
A year of giving voice in rural Appalachia
ALLEN JUNCTION, West Virginia — One morning this summer, I found myself standing on the side of the...
Dec 21, 2018
‘A Mountain Dew to brush my teeth.’
‘A Mountain Dew to brush my teeth.’: In Southern W.Va., Residents Wary of Water's Health Effects A water...
Dec 10, 2018
Covering the West Virginia teacher strike — and coming home
CHARLESTON, West Virginia — The sea of striking teachers gathered in the Capitol here was dotted with red...
Apr 27, 2018
