Gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms shared her plans to boost Georgia's child welfare system and her journey as an ...

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) was furious and heartbroken. Nearly three years into an effort to fundamentally overhaul the nation’s foster care system, the bill Wyden had crafted alongside Senate Finance ...

A legislative panel examining child welfare spending held its final meeting Thursday and will deliver a report with next ...

A yearslong pattern of child deaths led to a federal takeover of Red Lake Nation’s child welfare agency last month, according ...

Latagia Tyronce’s two children were playing and one, a toddler, was burned by a blow-dryer. Despite the support of the children’s grandmother, and the compelling evidence that this was an accident, ...

A New York State judge transferred the case of a teenage girl charged with murder and arson to a Columbia County family court ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Wednesday with a laundry list of instructions for his administration on child welfare. The order does not appear to direct new money to states – in one ...

Petitioners argued that ambiguities in a new child welfare disproportionality law led to wrongful termination of a father's ...

Weston Charles-Gallo’s life as an LGBTQ foster youth was challenging until he was adopted into a loving home as a teenager. Photo courtesy of Charles-Gallo. Testifying before the House Ways and Means ...

Candice Broce, director of Georgia’s Division of Family and Children Services, answers lawmakers’ questions during a Thursday hearing about her agency’s $85 million budget deficit. Photo by Jordan ...

When a child can’t safely stay with their family, they should be placed with their siblings and in their community, with a foster family who can fully meet their needs and keep them safe. That’s what ...

Hennepin County has accused the Trump administration of unlawfully diverting up to $86 million for teen pregnancy prevention.