Arizona Daily Star investigation: Fixing our foster care crisis Part 3, Reinvention
The Arizona Daily Star investigated how our state came to have one of the nation's highest rates of child removal, and how we can keep more kids at home by helping at-risk families break generational cycles of trauma, neglect or abuse.
(9) updates to this series since Updated
They call it the “miracle question.”
Success is not measured in hugs.
About half of the children in foster care will go home.
Donald Jayne could have lost everything the day he turned 18 — his housing, his friends, the adults he turned to for support and guidance. Gro…
The Arizona Daily Star investigated how our state came to have one of the nation's highest rates of child removal, and how we can keep more ki…
The Arizona Daily Star investigated how our state came to have one of the nation's highest rates of child removal, and how we can keep more ki…
"I'd cry every night. I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping," said Tucson foster-care alumna Aracely Valencia, 25. For more interviews with local…
"You learn quickly that you are just a paycheck to a lot of people," said Donald Jayne, 20, a former Tucson foster child. For more interviews …
"It was kind of survival of the fittest" in Arizona group homes, said foster-care alum Alexei Ruiz, 23, now an artist in Tucson. For more inte…
Donald Jayne, 20, Alexei Ruiz, 23, and Aracely Valencia, 25, share some of their experiences in the foster care system in Pima County.
The number of Arizona children in foster care more than doubled between 2008 and 2016, soaring from 9,000 to nearly 19,000. Recent reforms by …
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Tucsonan Donald Jayne, now 20, opted to remain in what's known as "extended foster care." He's part of an independent living program whose ren…
Cycles, written by playwright Milta Ortiz of Tucson’s Borderlands Theater and produced by Storyworks, was originally planned for live performances, but has been rewritten for online production.
David Lujan, director of the Children's Action Alliance and a former state lawmaker, says he hopes his ongoing opposition to Republican-pushed tax cuts does not impede his nomination.