The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services received federal approval on Friday, Sept. 20 for several forms of ...

The state’s Department of Children and Family Services tried to reach Andrea Luncsford earlier this month after being told ...

A politically connected Chicago center for troubled youth was quietly shut down in June amid abuse allegations and years of ...

CBS News Chicago Legal Analyst Irv Miller says he cannot think of any case in his career in Illinois when a child under the ...

Cuyahoga County's Division of Children and Family Services Advisory Board is calling on area health systems to hire a ...

A former Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) worker convicted of mishandling the AJ Freund case is being ...

On Monday, to provide transparency and accountability, representatives of DCFS presented their findings on child abuse to ...

A Catholic priest in northwest suburban Park Ridge is being investigated by the Illinois Department of Children and Family ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man accused of stabbing a state child welfare worker to death as she was making a home visit to check on children has been found guilty but mentally ill in ...

The state’s Department of Children and Family Services tried to reach Andrea Luncsford earlier this month after being told ...

A former employee of Illinois’ child welfare agency convicted of mishandling the AJ Freund case months before the Crystal ...

The tale of their abortive adoption is just one example of larger systemic problems at DCFS. A group of nine foster children across the state recently filed suit against the agency, saying ...