After a harsh performance audit, MN ombudspersons for families of colors cite staff and resource shortages, but say they're ...

The Trump administration’s call for a funding freeze could total hundreds of billions of dollars, with sweeping impacts on social safety net programs serving children and families. Under threat: child ...

Juvenile detention facilities, including the now defunct Thornton Youth Center in Sacramento County, have been housing foster youth simply because better placements aren’t available. Photo: Disability ...

A bipartisan group working to reduce reliance on foster care released a proposal Tuesday to cap and reprioritize the child ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up another case that seeks to dismantle the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act.

The federal government has expanded the use of foster care prevention funding to include expectant parents and their “unborn ...

Nearly a year after his arrest, the husband of Georgia’s child welfare agency director has pleaded not guilty to driving ...

Katherine Lucero is the director of the Office of Youth and Community Restoration, a new agency that will oversee the replacement of California’s youth prison system with community-based services and ...

As a field, we are fond of saying that child abuse and neglect cross all economic strata, but we know that it is not reported or handled equally or proportionally across all strata, as reflected by ...

A kin-first approach could end the long-running practice of states placing children removed from their parents with kin in ...

Opinion: Eliminating unlicensed placements is achievable, but it requires state governments, providers and stakeholders to ...