In her second column piece, Sky Lea Ross writes on the results of her study on foster youth's physical health issues and ...

New rules in the city's family courts will limit previous requirements that parents and guardians submit to supervised, ...

Days before the Nov. 3 election, NY’s child welfare commissioner touted Gov. Kathy Hochul’s efforts impacting children and ...

Keisha Lance Bottoms in Atlanta. Photo by Cindy Elizabeth for The Imprint. Keisha Lance Bottoms rose at 3:30 a.m. on a recent ...

Adopted kids from California have been sent to facilities in Utah, Montana, and as far off as North Carolina at taxpayer expense — sometimes for years. Photo by Arkady Chubykin/Adobe Stock. Five years ...

Roughly half a million U.S. babies and toddlers experienced homelessness and housing instability in recent years, according ...

In 2021, NPR and its reporting partners exposed two routine, pernicious practices involving child welfare systems and money that should have stayed with children and/or their families. Neither ...

In June, the Trump administration hired Jerry Milner to lead the federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services that oversees federal child welfare funding and policy. The ...

Latagia Tyronce’s two children were playing and one, a toddler, was burned by a blow-dryer. Despite the support of the children’s grandmother, and the compelling evidence that this was an accident, ...

The closure of one Southern Oregon facility highlights barriers to expanding care for kids with complex behavioral health needs.

An entrance to the Brookwood Secure Center for Youth in upstate New York. Photo by Steven Yoder. Self-harm, drugs and violent incidents have skyrocketed in some of New York’s locked juvenile ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has approved three new bills improving the child welfare system. Photo by Mike Groll/Office of Gov. Kathy Hochul. After years of advocacy, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has ...