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Failed to Death: Colorado to start tracking workload for child protection workers
Failed to Death: Colorado to start tracking workload for child protection workers
Failed to Death: Colorado needs hundreds more foster families
Failed to Death: Colorado needs hundreds more foster families
Lawmakers pledge new look at Colorado child protection system
Lawmakers pledge new look at Colorado child protection system
Seeking solutions to improve Colorado’s child welfare system
Seeking solutions to improve Colorado's child welfare system
Abused or neglected kids more likely to have impaired body and brain
A child's trauma, if never addressed, can bring lifelong problems.
Jazzmin Escobar: Family, agencies stumbled in death
Jazzmin Escobar: Family, agencies stumbled in death
Cash divide: Funding inequities have plagued Colorado’s child welfare system
Child protection services in some Colorado counties have been victims of an antiquated funding process that gives money without considering need. The state is seeking to fix the inequity.
Memorandums of understanding can bring police, child services together
A memorandum of understanding is one way counties can get police officials and child protection workers on the same page when helping the abused and neglected. But a distrust between...
Colorado, counties differ on when probes of child abuse are needed
State law dictates when child welfare departments are supposed to probe allegations of abuse and neglect, but counties have wide discretion in determining whether a call has enough information to...
Failed to Death: “System was set up to fail”
Caseworkers broke at least one rule while investigating alleged abuse or neglect in half the cases reviewed. Their jobs are tough, overwhelming and, at times, a matter of life and...