Long-awaited insight into why foster care spending has soared in Georgia was revealed in an audit presented to public officials on Thursday.

The feds awarded $2.2 million in grants to make foster home licensing more efficient, especially by speeding up fingerprinting for background checks.

Kim Dvorchak is leaving the National Association of Counsel for Children, the country’s leading trade group for children’s ...

The Red Lake Nation welcome sign on State Hwy. 1 on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota. Photo by Lorie Shaull, CC License 2.0. In a still publicly unexplained move, the Bureau of Indian Affairs has ...

Federal officials executed a search warrant at the Red Lake Nation’s family services building Thursday, but there are no ...

Katherine Lucero is stepping down from her post as California's top youth justice official to return to the Superior Court.

Superior Court Judge Amanda Health is the newly elected president of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges ...

Human Services oversees the Division of Family and Children Services, or DFCS, which is a social services agency under ...

A new survey of of more than 400 young people provides insight into the results of the government's investment in extended ...

With the recent surge in people removed from SNAP rolls, fewer families automatically qualify for the state's "SUN Bucks" aid ...

Four out of 10 homeless youth in Minnesota were once in foster care, according to a new study released by Wilder Research.