The Trump administration’s call for a funding freeze could total hundreds of billions of dollars, with sweeping impacts on social safety net programs serving children and families. Under threat: child ...
After a harsh performance audit, MN ombudspersons for families of colors cite staff and resource shortages, but say they're ...
Juvenile detention facilities, including the now defunct Thornton Youth Center in Sacramento County, have been housing foster youth simply because better placements aren’t available. Photo: Disability ...
A bipartisan group working to reduce reliance on foster care released a proposal Tuesday to cap and reprioritize the child ...
The federal government has expanded the use of foster care prevention funding to include expectant parents and their “unborn ...
The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up another case that seeks to dismantle the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act.
Nearly a year after his arrest, the husband of Georgia’s child welfare agency director has pleaded not guilty to driving ...
Brothers Mark and Jason Garcia hold up an illustration drawn by their younger sibling Ruben, who is incarcerated at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall. Photo by Jeremy Loudenback for The Imprint. It’s been ...
A kin-first approach could end the long-running practice of states placing children removed from their parents with kin in ...
A recent nationwide survey, conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services and reported on by The Imprint, shared a compelling story well known to the child welfare community: Across the ...
This article was first published in The Texas Observer, an Austin-based nonprofit news organization covering culture and politics. It was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health ...