I am sick of this made-up facade that the system has to try and make themselves seem great and undeniably precious, writes ...

The first lady joined lawmakers to push for changes to the Chafee Foster Care Program for Successful Transition to Adulthood.

After four years, the Department of Children and Family Services director will leave his post by Aug. 1, the Imprint has ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week announced a $37.2 million investment in apprenticeship and workforce training ...

Advocates evoked the name of longtime labor right champion Dolores Huerta, who at age 96 revealed her account of sexual abuse ...

A new report details the potential harms of probation for young people, from the perspectives of those with experience.

I spent much of my childhood first homeless with my mentally ill mother, then in the foster care system — shuffled from home to home, often hungry and abused, always invisible. I never knew the ...

In the Bay Area’s Family and Me program, foster youth select an “alternative” to their caregivers and get $3,000 a year for ...

New York lawmakers advanced a bill to equip New York's state-run juvenile detention facilities with full-body scanners.

After being sued by Native Americans and disability rights advocates, New Mexico is making slow but steady progress on foster care reforms.

The effort to pay for more residential foster care with Medicaid money, a controversial proposition, has begun anew in ...