congregate care

By Richard Wexler Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one before. There’s a scandal involving horrific abuse at a residential treatment center. No, not the one in Arizona, or the one in Kentucky, or the one in Tennessee, or Indiana, or Utah, or Oklahoma, or Washington state or Arkansas, or Connecticut or — well, you get the idea.

Professor Gerald Mallon writes about the history of discrimination and barriers faced by LGBTQ youth in foster care

The Imprint's 2023 data for our Who Cares project finds that the number of youth in foster care continued to drop this year.

Two former Lakeside Academy staffers pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter in the 2020 death of 16-year-old Cornelius Fredericks.

Legislation calling for better oversight of youth residential treatment centers was introduced in both chambers of Congress today.

Barriers persist in reducing use of congregate care under the Family First Prevention Services Act, according to a new report.

Group facilities for New York children and youth in foster care are fighting a rate change they say will "destabilize" their budgets.

Children’s advocates have published accounts of 80 young New Yorkers sent to foster care group facilities, hoping to prompt officials to act. 

Lawmakers and advocates for youth who have survived traumatic experiences in congregate care facilities say legislation is forthcoming.