The death of 5-year-old Zoey Felix has raised alarms about child welfare oversight after neighbors and agencies reported concerns about her safety before she was raped and killed Oct. 2. While Mickel ...

The DCF model is powerful but highly sensitive to key inputs: discount rate, perpetual growth rate, and growth assumptions. Choosing the right discount rate is crucial; too low or too high a rate can ...

There’s been little resolution for hundreds of people in need of benefits from the state, because of issues with a system that has been in place for nearly three months. The new MyACCESS application ...

Christopher Berry’s troubles started long before he killed his infant son in 2013. After surviving a suicide bombing and returning from Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress in 2011, Berry racked up ...

The ACLU of Vermont's case challenges the surveillance of pregnant women by the Vermont Department for Children and Families.

The case of Ana Walshe, 39, a mother who has been missing since Jan. 1 from Cohasset, has gripped the nation for almost two weeks and has given parents reason to question what could happen to their ...

Vermont Business Magazine A Vermont judge on December 17, 2025, ruled on the defendants’ motions to dismiss in A.V. v. Vermont Dept. for Children and Families, Copley Hospital, and Lund, allowing ...

This story has been updated. Lawmakers gathered on Wednesday to hear testimony from state auditors and representatives of the Department of Children and Families about a recent report which found that ...

DCF wants to place more children in ‘kinship care’ — with a relative or other close family connection. But doing so has been ...

Francisco Ortiz is charged with murder in the death of his 4-year-old daughter, A'zella, in October 2024. The state's ...