A kin-first approach could end the long-running practice of states placing children removed from their parents with kin in ...

Sierra Burns, center, shakes hands with Melania Trump at the 2026 State of the Union address. With them are, from left, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Barron Trump and Usha Vance. Provided photo.

Dozens of Los Angeles County youth offenders who’ve been held in limbo in a juvenile hall devoid of necessary programming will soon be headed to rehabilitative camps in more remote areas, following a ...

Clay County Commissioner Jenny Mongeau testified that counties need more time and funding to properly implement the African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionality Act at a ...

Trump officials describe the new approaches to improving child welfare systems reflected in state A Home for Every Child plans ...

Nearly a year after his arrest, the husband of Georgia’s child welfare agency director has pleaded not guilty to driving ...

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland embraced boarding school survivor Delores Twohatched at the first stop on the “Road to Healing” tour in July 2022, Photo by Nick Oxford. The federal government has ...

New York Chief Judge Rowan Wilson in his Manhattan office. Photo by Susanti Sarkar for The Imprint. In his February State of the Judiciary address, New York’s Chief Judge Rowan Wilson spoke for only ...

There’s growing acknowledgment that parents should not lose their kids because of educational neglect. We need our children to achieve educational success. We also need to preserve families at all ...

The Reno-based National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges has chosen Eryn Jane Branch to be its next CEO ...

As part of a yearslong fight for parental protections in Administration for Children’s Services investigations, Shekar Krishnan, now a New York City councilmember, speaks at a 2021 protest rally.