An appellate court ruled that New York City’s child welfare agency unlawfully monitored a Bronx mother after she left her ...

As mixed-status families cope with aggressive ICE enforcement, a parent’s detention can launch them into multiple layers of ...

SNAP is a stabilizing force for families. Delays, disruptions, and rigid administrative processes cause real harm, writes ...

A new Minnesota law requires K-12 school districts to ensure that priority enrollment is given to foster youth applying for ...

Members of a state advisory council tasked with finding ways to reduce child poverty laid out four central goals at a Tuesday ...

After the evangelical adoption and foster care agency reversed its inclusion of LGBTQ+ families, a former executive asks: ...

In her first piece, Sky Lea Ross writes about the mental health outcomes of former foster youth and the repercussions of ...

“I am living proof that you can make it out, and I would never have done so if I did not get government assistance,” Ahrens told The Imprint. “The attack on the social safety net is very personal for ...

The Uniform Law Commission is proposing a state-level update of ICWA, the federal statute passed in 1978 to protect tribal ...

Calli and her 1-year-old son. Photo by Erick Doxey/InvestigateWest. This story was originally published by InvestigateWest, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to change-making investigative journalism.

The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation has awarded a $750,000 grant to the nonprofit California Tribal Families Coalition to expand legal advocacy for Indigenous children and families. The tribe’s Doyuti ...