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

Linda Spears, head of Massachusetts’ child welfare system, has been tapped to take over as executive director and president of the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA). She is set to succeed ...

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.

California lawmakers will provide $5 million to help address the mental health care gaps for youth adopted from the state's ...

Trump's Office of Refugee Resettlement wants to assess unaccompanied minors for "dangerousness" and intensify vetting for ...

Macon Stewart is senior deputy director of the Center for Youth Justice at Georgetown University and is recognized as one of the country’s foremost experts on systemic reform to address the needs of ...

After recording more than 380 stories from Indigenous boarding school survivors in 19 states, a national oral history project ...

With the ‘orphan tax’ under fire thanks to pressure from federal leaders, Richard Wexler writes the ‘reunification ransom’ ...

Authors of a new study found the rate of criminal justice involvement in children’s families tripled between 2000 and 2019 — ...