When child welfare systems rely on kinship care, they should do it with full support and not through diversion, writes Sharon ...

A unique funding source can help young adults aging out of foster care attend one of Georgia’s 26 public universities or ...

A new Hennepin County program is part of growing efforts to provide legal assistance at the earliest possible stage of a ...

A judge who found the state of Texas repeatedly in contempt for its failed foster care fixes has been removed from the case ...

There is a shift underway in child welfare that places a greater focus on public health approaches that emphasize prevention of abuse and neglect, and less on an approach that only intervenes once ...

The Pandemic’s Blueprint for a Better Child Welfare System For a more preventive child welfare system, we must move away from the idea that it is solely the function of CPS to keep kids safe. The ...

Two people hold hands at the oral history project site visit in Harbor Springs, Michigan. Provided photo. They’ve come from the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. From the Ojibwe and Inupiaq. Smoke ...

Sen. Ron Wyden speaking in June shortly after the release of a Senate report on residential treatment facilities. Provided photo. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden is calling on the U.S. Justice Department to ...

Bob Schwartz, the charismatic and renowned figure in youth justice reform who co-founded the Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center and served as its executive director for 33 years, has died at the ...

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