Foster Care

Vermont has a new law that allows former foster care children to see their records — which were previously locked to them and only available to some state employees, and birth and foster parents. Vermont is one of few states in the U.S. to allow this access.

Specific records that are tied to abuse or neglect are currently off limits to adults who were in the foster care system as children, even though state agencies, law enforcement and attorneys can see them. This bill would change that.

Host Mikaela Lefrak talks with a foster parent about her experiences, plus the foster kin manager and guardian ad litem program manager on caring for kids in Vermont.

Host Mikaela Lefrak speaks with author Christine Kenneally about her book investigating abuse in Catholic-run orphanages over the last century.

Host Connor Cyrus speaks with a child advocate and member of a state oversight commission, as well as an archivist, who are urging changes to who can access foster care records in Vermont.

People formerly in Vermont foster care do not have access to their own state records. A new report asks lawmakers to change that.

With drug use surging in the past decade and a half, many parents are losing custody of their kids. But is foster care the best solution?

A Milton man who has been a foster parent in Vermont for 25 years was arraigned Tuesday on charges including sexual assault of a child, police said.The…

A foster family in the Northeast Kingdom says Vermont’s Department for Children and Families didn’t adequately warn them about the violent and destructive…

Three separate investigations are looking into how Vermont’s Department for Children and Families protect children at risk for abuse and neglect.The…