Jennifer Brookland

Detroit Free Press Wayne State program helps moms, dads get mental health help Link Copied

Up to 1 in 20 U.S. children live with brain damage caused by prenatal alcohol exposure. Their teachers, doctors and even parents don't always know.

Detroit Free Press There's a reason April Beaton has a 6-foot white beanbag in the living room and not a coffee table; a reason her 5-year-old son's bedroom is kept bare.

Detroit Free Press Kim and her husband, a stay-at-home mom and electrical engineer who live in a pretty lakeside house in mid-Michigan, were

Detroit Free Press When parents sign the adoption paperwork, they're supposed to give their child a forever home.

As Michigan struggles to recruit all the foster and adoptive parents it needs, it's also changing the way it prepares and supports them.

Parents who adopt out of Michigan's child welfare system say getting help for their kids' behavioral health needs can feel like a constant struggle.

Adoption isn't always the happy ending we think it is. For many parents who adopt out of foster care, it's the beginning of a long, challenging story.

Detroit Free Press A freezing mid-January day in Battle Creek. A line of hangdog, slouching teens wraps around the hallways of the Michigan

USA TODAY Inside a Michigan military school where families leave teenagers out of love, desperation Link Copied