child welfare

The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation has awarded a $750,000 grant to the nonprofit California Tribal Families Coalition to expand legal advocacy for Indigenous children and families.

In 2021, NPR and its reporting partners exposed two routine, pernicious practices involving child welfare systems and money that should have stayed with children and/or their families. Neither practice was new.

The ACF's “A Home for Every Child” is an opportunity for change. Our challenge is to invest in families, act quickly and scale what works.

It makes a difference having someone to fight for you, the author writes, and foster youth need representation in court.

The authors write that it's time to shutter group homes and give all children the families they need and deserve.

Lawyers for parents are suing over a proposed policy allowing judges to order on-site drug tests in NYC family courts. 

I felt that if I could just find someone to love me, I would be happy, and that void would be filled, writes Sky Lea Ross.

A federal lawsuit accuses child welfare officials of routinely separating children and parents through abrupt removals mischaracterized as emergencies and executed without court orders.

A federal appeals court has revived a suit by a father who alleges New York City's child welfare agency violated his family’s constitutional rights.