We need to stop assuming there is justice, and start organizing around the truth of injustice experienced by families and ...

Programs offering sports and wilderness training received a new infusion of cash from New York’s child welfare agency.

Allen was 13 when he dialed 911 for help. He found his mother, Rut, unconscious and shaking, and he immediately called for an ...

In Sacramento, cultural brokers mediate between child welfare officials and families to prevent Black children from entering ...

The Trump administration has told states to review and amend policies requiring foster parents to affirm the gender identity ...

With the federal government shutdown barrelling toward a Nov. 1 “fiscal cliff,” state, local and tribal leaders are issuing ...

Tim Pippert, right, executive director of the Augsburg Family Scholars program, which supports college students who have been in foster care. Provided photo Months before Savannah Mitchell was about ...

Lisa Ghartey Ogundimu, a deputy commissioner of the Office of Children and Family Services, said for too long many child maltreatment reports have been based “solely on race and poverty.” Photo by ...

Historically, the needs of LGBTQ+ youth in child welfare systems have mostly not been addressed or, worse, have been invisible to those charged with caring for them. Caregivers who have provided ...

Authors Shellie Taggart and Wendy Mota. Sofia (not her real name) was a teenage mother living with the abusive father of her child. She made a plan with her high school counselor to move into a ...