Children

Grocery stores in northwest Lower Michigan are getting extra brown bags this month— the 35th annual fundraising campaign for Child and Family Services.

TOPSoccer offers soccer lessons for kids who have disabilities. It is a 30-year-old national youth sports organization. In Midland, TOPSoccer head coach Tamara Hageage shares her experience coaching the kids.

Youth Triathlon in Midland continues the annual tradition and attracts more than 200 racers this year.

Children's Grief Center says one out of 11 kids in Michigan experience a loss of a parent of a sibling by the age of 18. Children's Grief Center offers peer support groups to help on the children's healing journeys.

Children's Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region offers support for people experience the loss of a loved one.

Bills to require doctors to screen young children for lead poisoning passed the Michigan Legislature Tuesday.

Several children's hospitals in Michigan say they're no longer completely full, like they were during the RSV and flu surge in November and December.That big spike in little kids getting really sick with respiratory illnesses last year overwhelmed children's hospitals in Michigan, a state with only 10 pediatric ICUs. But as the RSV and flu rates have started dropping, children's hospitals are back to something more like normal.

Mental health, school safety, and teacher retention all ranked among the top concerns listed in the final report from the Michigan Parents’ Council.

As chairwoman of the Senate committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow brought forth legislation to help families on the USDA's supplemental nutrition program known as WIC gain access to more baby formula.

A new report from the University of Michigan Poverty Solutions initiative estimates that more than 20,000 children in Michigan did not have a permanent home in 2019.