A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit by a father who alleges the child welfare agency violated his family’s ...

A bipartisan House bill has been introduced that would ease the path to housing vouchers for youth aging out of foster care ...

The state is the latest to eliminate policies requiring foster parents to affirm youths’ sexual orientation and gender identity amid legal pressure. Lawsuit plaintiffs Jennifer and Shane DeGross.

Under the newly signed Youth Charging Reform Act, children under age 16 will not be automatically charged in adult court, ...

Rick Jackson, the Georgia billionaire who trumpeted his childhood in foster care, is now in a runoff for the Republican ...

New data shows racial disparities in who passes the standardized test to become a licensed social worker in the U.S. Illustration by Christine Ongjoco. Kathy Elisca Clermont is on the cusp of becoming ...

Rosa Alvarez with her husband, Michael, their children and grandchildren. Provided photo. This is what growing up in a foster home on an Arizona reservation gave Rosa Soto Alvarez: family road trips ...

Every year, thousands of young people across the U.S. leave foster care with no stable housing, no financial cushion, and ...

Two people hold hands at the oral history project site visit in Harbor Springs, Michigan. Provided photo. They’ve come from the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. From the Ojibwe and Inupiaq. Smoke ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is permitting states to immediately add several foster care prevention services to their Title IV-E plans. “I strongly encourage States and Tribes to ...

Prevention is about changing the conditions within individuals, families and across generations that facilitated the harm in the first place.