As family homelessness hits record highs, a few school districts offer parking lots as safe sites for students and their ...

States that opt into the Trump administration's A Home for Every Child initiative can now compete for federal funding awards ...

We need a system where families can access intensive mental health services without surrendering custody of kids.

On billboards, online and in newspapers, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson sums up his life story: “Foster care to ...

A legal team that previously challenged the Indian Child Welfare Act is bringing the issue before the U.S. Supreme Court once ...

The Minnesota Foster Youth Bill of Rights would include the right to “appropriate travel bags.” Final votes will be cast this ...

Seven former foster youth are suing a former pediatrician for sex abuse and a California county for covering it up.

When he began running child welfare hearings in rural Mower County near the Minnesota-Iowa border, District Court Judge Jeffrey Kritzer would first listen to social workers and lawyers to find out ...

A lawsuit against Washington state's child welfare department alleges the agency flouts its duty to protect the best interest ...

Georgia lawmakers have struck a bipartisan deal to fill the state child welfare agency’s budget hole, following months of scrutiny and a looming deficit that compromised critical social services. Last ...

Georgia state Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick. Photo, Georgia Senate. The challenges are documented and well-known: Young people aging out of foster care are more likely to experience behavioral, mental and ...