Missouri’s system for providing legal representation to families ensnared in the foster care system is highly decentralized and has little state oversight. The result is that some parents go without ...

Missouri has long taken kids into foster care at a rate higher than average and kept them there for more time. There were 11,085 kids in foster care as of March, down from a peak of 14,265 kids in ...

Missouri has begun issuing federal food benefits that could reach 475,000 kids this summer. The first batch of Missouri's summer food benefits for children was issued Thursday night, a spokesperson ...

O’FALLON, Mo. - For the past four years, a man from O'Fallon, Missouri, has made it his mission to bring smiles to the faces of sick kids. Patrick Collins builds cottages for kids with cancer, and his ...

In the nearly two decades Sara Smith spent working at Missouri's Department of Social Services, she remembers nine different people running the agency in charge of investigating child abuse and ...

Most eligible kids will receive the benefits automatically and won’t need to apply, but those who do need to apply must do so by Aug. 31 (USDA photo). Missouri has begun issuing federal food benefits ...