Kids are being locked up in detention centers solely because of their mental health challenges, a new bipartisan ...

Buffalo’s schools disproportionately discipline Black and brown students and students with disabilities, a DA's investigation has found.

A report from California's Legislative Analyst’s Office looks at the state's progress in implementing new prevention services.

The effort to reshape the Chafee program, which supports older foster youth and those who have aged out, is underway ...

Billions of dollars in anti-poverty funds will continue flowing to five Democrat-led states targeted by the Trump ...

GA legislators approved an $82 million boost for the state’s child welfare agency — twice as much as what the governor ...

An immigration judge has denied bail for a well-known foster youth advocate who has been locked up in a Southern California detention center.

Mike Shaver argues in favor providing automatic eligibility for Head Start when kids are involved in child welfare cases ...

Jurors awarded $8.3 million to the family of Cedric Lofton, a foster youth who died after he was restrained at a correctional ...

Nick Gwyn writes that the Trump administration’s five-state funding freeze Is unlawful, harmful, and a major threat to people ...

A mother whose baby died in a foster home has been awarded $9 million in a lawsuit against a county agency and one of its ...

Lawmakers pushed the head of New York State’s child welfare agency on her plans to improve conditions in a public hearing Thursday.