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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

The Trump administration's top child welfare official has scaled back recommendations for states that license foster parents, ...

The ACF's “A Home for Every Child” is an opportunity for change. Our challenge is to invest in families, act quickly and ...

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’ ...

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 ...