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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

There is a huge difference between receiving financial support and actually being able to rely on it. For foster youth in college, The Fostering Youth Success College Initiative (FYSCI) funds are not ...