Illinois DCFS audit uncovers significant issues in child safety, well-being The audit of the state department revealed staff shortages, a lack of child safety and missing information on patients.

Issues of worker safety have come to light after the Jan. 4 fatal stabbing of DCFS child protection specialist Deidre (Graham) Silas, 36, of Springfield in Thayer, a village of about 700 people on ...

The National Center for Education Statistics’ (NCES) 2018 edition of the Indicators of School Crime and Safety shows that public schools in Illinois are unable to keep their students safe and free ...

State auditor's general finds DCFS failed in monitoring children 02:16. CHICAGO (CBS) --When kids are removed from their homes over concerns of neglect and abuse, one of the hardest parts of their ...

Only a year out from the onset of the pandemic, the extent to which COVID-19 has impacted foster children is empirically unclear. However, conversations with advocates, researchers, and employees of ...

Every Illinois family should have the opportunity to remove their child from an unsafe school environment. With Child Safety Accounts, this would become reality. The following documents provide more ...

Illinois lawmakers proposed a bill that would have required families to notify schools that they would be homeschooling their children. The bill received over 40,000 witness slips in opposition.

Some youth have mental health concerns and use substances as a way to mask them, while others have concerns that result from years of using substances. “There is a link, 100%,” she said.

"Throughout the 40s, 50s and 60s, states really grew their social safety nets, and they were able to do that because the federal government supported them," Rossi said. "That started to end in the ...