The main office of New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services in Manhattan. Photo by Hiram Alejandro Durán. The Mamdani administration has relaunched its closely watched search for ...

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

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

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

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

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

Bethany Christian Services will now require staff and prospective caregivers to disavow gay marriage and transgender rights.

Alabama has reached a settlement in a federal lawsuit that accused it of segregating foster youth with mental health ...

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 ...

Original artwork by Mirage Carrington and Brooklyn Hicks, from a new report on juvenile probation from the Gault Center and YEAH Philly. Prosecutors typically present youth accused of crimes with two ...

The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation has awarded a $750,000 grant to the nonprofit California Tribal Families Coalition to expand ...