Series: Virginia's social services under strain
Virginia's decentralized system of social services including child protection and foster care has been scrutinized for nearly 40 years. The system is both a major source of state government spending and a place where decisions made can have generational impacts.
Alison Graham
Alison Graham covers health and technology. She’s originally from Indianapolis and a graduate of Indiana University.
Virginia's social services system needs reform from the top down and that will take bipartisan cooperation.
Virginia soon may hire a children’s ombudsman after the General Assembly passed a bill now headed to Gov. Ralph Northam’s desk. If signed, the…
In a proposed budget for fiscal year 2021, Bedford County budgeted a $2.4 million increase in funding to its Children Services Act (CSA).
Alison Graham will spend a year doing investigative reporting on state and regional social services programs and to continue her award-winning series, “Social Services Under Strain,” which started late last year.
Veteran photojournalist Heather Rousseau will spend the coming year reporting on immigrant and refugee communities in the Roanoke and New River valleys.
Work by Roanoke Times journalists was honored by the Virginia Press Association and the Associated Press Sports Editors.