On billboards, online and in newspapers, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson sums up his life story: “Foster care to ...

Seven former foster youth are suing a former pediatrician for sex abuse and a California county for covering it up.

Georgia state Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick. Photo, Georgia Senate. The challenges are documented and well-known: Young people aging out of foster care are more likely to experience behavioral, mental and ...

A legal team that previously challenged the Indian Child Welfare Act is bringing the issue before the U.S. Supreme Court once ...

The Minnesota Foster Youth Bill of Rights would include the right to “appropriate travel bags.” Final votes will be cast this ...

Illustration by Christine Ongjoco for The Imprint. Six days after turning 21 and leaving foster care in Los Angeles, Nancy Olivares was living in a hotel room. She had no job and, as yet, no more ...

A lawsuit against Washington state's child welfare department alleges the agency flouts its duty to protect the best interest ...

Closing some of California's county-run youth incarceration facilities is the only way to eliminate the excess capacity and ...

A nonprofit law firm representing a group of New York City foster youth has resumed long-running litigation against the city’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) and the state agency that ...

Reports of child abuse and neglect, system responses to those reports, and confirmed child victims have all declined since the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data released last week ...