Days before the Nov. 3 election, NY’s child welfare commissioner touted Gov. Kathy Hochul’s efforts impacting children and ...

Gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms shared her plans to boost Georgia's child welfare system and her journey as an ...

A legislative panel examining child welfare spending held its final meeting Thursday and will deliver a report with next ...

A New York State judge transferred the case of a teenage girl charged with murder and arson to a Columbia County family court ...

Latagia Tyronce’s two children were playing and one, a toddler, was burned by a blow-dryer. Despite the support of the children’s grandmother, and the compelling evidence that this was an accident, ...

Candice Broce, director of Georgia’s Division of Family and Children Services, answers lawmakers’ questions during a Thursday hearing about her agency’s $85 million budget deficit. Photo by Jordan ...

Petitioners argued that ambiguities in a new child welfare disproportionality law led to wrongful termination of a father's ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Wednesday with a laundry list of instructions for his administration on child welfare. The order does not appear to direct new money to states – in one ...

When a child can’t safely stay with their family, they should be placed with their siblings and in their community, with a foster family who can fully meet their needs and keep them safe. That’s what ...

Illustration by Christine Ongjoco for The Imprint. Mississippi has expanded the list of crimes for which children as young as 13 must be prosecuted as adults and sent to adult prisons. Prior to Senate ...

Hennepin County has accused the Trump administration of unlawfully diverting up to $86 million for teen pregnancy prevention.

New caregiving standards from the Child Welfare Playbook shift the emphasis from the physical condition of a caregiver’s home to their caregiving capacity. Journalist Suzette Brewer of the Cherokee ...