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West Virginia’s heavily burdened foster care system is losing another top official. Gov. Jim Justice says he will appoint Bureau of Social Services chief Jeffrey Pack as commissioner of the

Jeffrey Pack, commissioner for the Bureau for Social Services within the West Virginia Department of Human Services, will be appointed as commissioner of the West Virginia Bureau of Senior Services,

Jeffrey Pack, the state's first commissioner for social services, is slated to assume a new role with the West Virginia Bureau of Senior Services once his successor is in place.

Last week, K.D., a 54 year-old foster parent in Braxton County, learned that her monthly foster care payment from the state health department wasn’t coming on time.

Gov. Jim Justice’s initiative to provide robust and welcome pay raises for the thin and overworked ranks of child welfare workers in the state is a fine example of robbing

In the final week of candidate filings in West Virginia for the 2022 election, last minute filings seemed to be a theme among many Democrats seeking state office.

There are problems in out-of-state group homes. West Virginia officials say they are going to ‘ensure this doesn’t happen again.’

In several cases, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources has continued or renewed contracts with the facilities despite its own inspection reports revealing abuse.

CHARLESTON — The chairman of the West Virginia House of Delegates’ Health Committee has been named commissioner of the newly established Bureau for Social Services within the Department of Health and Human Resources. Del. Jeffrey Pack, R-Raleigh, will resign from his position as delegate. His district includes parts of Raleigh, Summers and Monroe counties. Pack, of Cool Ridge, West Virginia, was appointed to the House in January 2018 and then elected for two two-year terms. According ...

For The Inter-Mountain CHARLESTON — The debate was polite, but representatives of the House of Delegates and Senate could not hammer out a compromise Friday on a bill to limit the emergency powers of the governor. Members of the conference committee on House Bill 2003, relating to the authority and obligations of the governor and Legislature when in declared states of preparedness and emergency, could not agree on either the Senate’s conference committee report or the House’s conference c...