A bipartisan bill has been introduced that would line up federal policy with a nascent effort to get more states on board ...

In the Bay Area’s Family and Me program, foster youth select an “alternative” to their caregivers and get $3,000 a year for ...

Youth Voices Rising writer Destiny Jackson. Courtesy of Jackson. I learned how to survive before I ever learned what it felt like to be safe. By the time most kids were worried about homework or what ...

The Imprint did a first-ever survey of all 50 states, asking how often parents voluntarily turn their kids over to the child ...

Proposed state law would set aside survivor and disability payments for foster youth to use after they turn 18, with the state reimbursing counties to make up the loss. Minnesota state Sen. Melissa ...

A Congressional report found facilities in seven states incarcerated children simply because they lacked appropriate foster ...

California has ordered the closure of Los Angeles County’s two juvenile halls. Here, children line up for “count” in 2014 at the county’s Central Juvenile Hall. Photo by Joseph Rodriguez. In an ...

Sources say New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to soon name the city's child welfare commissioner: Rebecca Jones ...

New York lawmakers advanced a bill to equip New York's state-run juvenile detention facilities with full-body scanners.