California

In Sacramento, cultural brokers mediate between child welfare officials and the families they have the power to separate. The goal is to keep families together and prevent Black children from entering foster care.

California lawmakers passed a package of bills to protect residents from the Trump Administration’s aggressive use of deportation and detention.

Mi Escuelita in San DIego offers students on-site mental health services and a safe space where children can learn and heal.

Eduardo Mundo and David Muhammad urge California’s governor to sign a law that would end the practice of indefinite probation terms for youth in the state

Legislation that would have limited childhood sexual assault survivors’ ability to sue their perpetrators met a decisive end this week. 

I was sent away from everything I knew. I was confused, emotional, and angry. All I did was take a nap, writes Anthony Jay Padilla.

John Burton, a towering figure in California politics for six decades and an influential advocate for foster youth, died at age 92 Sunday.

California lawmakers will vote on a bill this week making it harder to file child sexual abuse lawsuits against schools, juvenile facilities and foster care agencies that are already buckling under the weight of current and threatened legal action.

The U.S Department of Health and Human Services has announced new tribal home-visiting grant awards.