Arizona

Pascua Yaqui tribal secretary and former foster youth Rosa Alvarez shares her memories and accounts of generations in the child welfare system. 

A proposed revision to federal law would provide more funding to tribal communities working to prevent child abuse and neglect.

An Arizona nonprofit helps Indigenous foster families as well as non-Native foster parents seeking to connect kids to their cultures.

While some families endure hardship due to unnecessary CPS involvement, eliminating mandatory reporting can harm children, writes Darcy Olsen.

Swift deportation leaves a family separated, with 8-and 14-year-old boys still in Arizona, and a community working to connect them.

In Minnesota, youth advocates want to end the practice of child welfare agencies using foster youths' federal benefits to pay for their care.

Congressional intern Leah Adams Adams argues for greater federal support for the promotion of treatment foster care in kinship care settings.

The first tribal and state governments have been approved by the Biden administration for an alternative path to licensing kinship caregivers

A personal essay on the ways women in the nomadic van life community are learning to heal complex trauma.