The effort to pay for more residential foster care with Medicaid money, a controversial proposition, has begun anew in ...
After being sued by Native Americans and disability rights advocates, New Mexico is making slow but steady progress on foster care reforms.
Working alongside social workers and under court supervision, DNA samples could be collected with informed consent and strict privacy protections to help connect kids in foster care to family, writes ...
In the Bay Area’s Family and Me program, foster youth select an “alternative” to their caregivers and get $3,000 a year for ...
A bipartisan bill has been introduced that would line up federal policy with a nascent effort to get more states on board ...
New York lawmakers advanced a bill to equip New York's state-run juvenile detention facilities with full-body scanners.
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 ...
Once again, New York City is reeling from the murder of a child. The circumstances around the killing of 10-year-old Ayden Wolfe are eerily familiar – a vulnerable mother, a new partner with a history ...
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 ...
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