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

Sierra Burns, center, shakes hands with Melania Trump at the 2026 State of the Union address. With them are, from left, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Barron Trump and Usha Vance. Provided photo.

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

Dozens of Los Angeles County youth offenders who’ve been held in limbo in a juvenile hall devoid of necessary programming will soon be headed to rehabilitative camps in more remote areas, following a ...

Across the U.S., a growing number of specialized courts are dedicated to ensuring compliance with the 1978 Indian Child ...

Clay County Commissioner Jenny Mongeau testified that counties need more time and funding to properly implement the African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionality Act at a ...

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

For 25 years, the federal government has reviewed state child welfare systems through the Child and Family Services Reviews. And for 25 years, not a single state has actually passed it, leading to ...

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

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland embraced boarding school survivor Delores Twohatched at the first stop on the “Road to Healing” tour in July 2022, Photo by Nick Oxford. The federal government has ...

New York Chief Judge Rowan Wilson in his Manhattan office. Photo by Susanti Sarkar for The Imprint. In his February State of the Judiciary address, New York’s Chief Judge Rowan Wilson spoke for only ...

There’s growing acknowledgment that parents should not lose their kids because of educational neglect. We need our children to achieve educational success. We also need to preserve families at all ...