Child welfare referred Black parents to law enforcement 14,000 times in 7 years, despite no findings of abuse or neglect.

New York state’s child welfare agency has started a new initiative to help fathers become better engaged in their children’s ...

In 1931, two years into the Great Depression, nine Black teenage boys between the ages of 13 and 19 boarded the same train going westward through Alabama in search of work. That train ride for Olen ...

As Georgia students soon head back to the classroom, a new law requires schools to take no more than three business days to ...

All 50 states have opted in to the ACF initiative, which has a goal of increasing the ratio of foster homes to children in ...

Aiming to steer young people away from deeper involvement in the criminal justice system, a law enacted in California last ...

The new Georgia Foster Care Scholarship offers a maximum of $30,000 per year for college, starting as early as the coming ...

Mississippi has expanded the list of crimes for which children as young as 13 must be prosecuted as adults and sent to adult ...

Long before we had child welfare or juvenile justice agencies as we know them today, the state was already punishing ...

First Lady Melania Trump, seated, at a press conference with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as they announce a new effort to expand foster youth access to “Trump Accounts.” Photo by Michael ...

Brittany and Josh Patterson of Georgia with their four children, including Soren, left, who drew police attention after walking from home to a store at age 10. Provided photo. Brittany Patterson ...