In the weeks after the brutal slaying of Emily Pike, the 14-year-old San Carlos Apache girl who went missing from a group home in Mesa, some child welfare experts say the system meant to protect ...

Dayton city commissioners voted to ban any new group homes for the next six months. Jason Anderson told me he’s a foster parent, and the issue of group homes hits close to home because he’s seen them ...

Matthew Walter and Stacy Snyder admitted they were bad, so bad that they got sent away from their families to live at the Children’s Home of Easton. Both of them stayed at the group home for kids ...

PHOENIX — Nearly 20% of Arizona's foster kids are not living in family homes; instead, those hundreds of kids are living in congregate care settings, according to the Department of Child Safety’s most ...

Clair "C.P." Jones was a father to scores of Tucson children with developmental disabilities. The Davis-Monthan Air Force Base flight-line mechanic and Navy veteran, along with his wife, Arlene, ...

Group homes for troubled teens can serve a purpose, but in the wake of Emily Pike's disappearance and death, many advocates say the system needs reforms. Some Arizona tribes are finding new challenges ...