Social Work

Indiana Has a Pain in the ACS

Chaney to the Rescue? Hey, That's What He Says.

Cute? Creepy? Why, Yes.

Just say yes

Dallas Indian centerfails to ask for a crucialinjection of money

The lies that BIND

A Dallas jury is forced to sift through the wreckage of a family destroyed by the infamous Norplant rape case

Careless

After an infant died in a Cedar Hill foster home, state investigators turned up evidence of neglect and greed. The worst thing is, they already knew.

The Good Books

After an infant died in a Cedar Hill foster home, state investigators turned up evidence of neglect and greed. The worst thing is, they already knew.

Orphaned

The most troubled kids get short shrift in state care

Out of Focus

A shift in AIDS funding from services to drugs threatens poor patients

Little Lost Boys...and Girls

Is the move to privatize Child Protective Services leaving huge gaps in care?

There Goes the Neighborhood

One couple's bad, strange relationship entangles their neighbors

Better Homes

Plus: We Screwed Up and Reluctant Patient

A Place of Their Own

Tom Dunning's homeless task force learns an old lesson: If at first you don't succeed, try again.

Garbage to You

Homeless people, like all of us, own things that can't be replaced

Absent Without Leave

Think cutting class is child's play? Tell it to the judge.

All Shook Up

A little Hawaiian girl and her sister adopt a destructive mutant in Lilo & Stitch

Sweetheart Deal

How does Virginia McGuire make a profit in the nonprofit business of creating affordable housing? Simple. She pays her husband.

Thanks, But No Thanks

Turning down millions in state money to build juvenile boot camps, Tarrant County opted for a different approach--one that works

For God and Country

For a South Oak Cliff church considered a model for mixing faith and government, the line between church and state is thin indeeda

Girl Talk

For a South Oak Cliff church considered a model for mixing faith and government, the line between church and state is thin indeeda

Conference Highlights Dallas's Unique Approach to Treating Prostitutes as Victims

​Dallas has developed a growing reputation as one of the few cities in the country to treat prostitutes as victims, whether through unique programs for under-age targets of human trafficking or specialty courts that help convicted sex workers create new lives. And so, two years after the Dallas Po ... More >>

Paradise Leashed

​Dallas has developed a growing reputation as one of the few cities in the country to treat prostitutes as victims, whether through unique programs for under-age targets of human trafficking or specialty courts that help convicted sex workers create new lives. And so, two years after the Dallas Po ... More >>

Dallas PD Sgt. Byron Fassett Tells His Tale of "the Forgotten Children" to Capitol Hill

DPD Sgt. Byron Fassett ​A few hours before Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show to talk health care yesterday, he held a briefing in the Judiciary Committee hearing room to discuss "the human sex trafficking crisis." Among the invited speakers was Dallas Police ... More >>

Today, "amnesty" is a dirty word. So what happened to the immigrants given a fresh start by Reagan in 1986?

Ronnie's Kids

The Myth of the All-Girl, Pimp-Controlled Trafficking Trade

Lost Boys: New child-sex-trafficking research demolishes the stereotype of the underage sex worker.

Friend of Unfair Park Bill Holston to Take the Reins at the Human Rights Initiative

Bill Holston​There's no need to introduce Bill Holston -- attorney, KERA contributor, nature-trekker -- to longtime Friends of Unfair Park; he's one of the good ones, and has been for a long, long while. But Bill's about to disappear from these virtual pages, at least for a little while; he write ... More >>