Connecticut

If my foster parent was trained to understand LGBTQ+ foster youth, it would have been a different experience for me, writes Alex Lopes.

A new law in Connecticut offers protections for Indigenous families that mirror the federal Indian Child Welfare Act.

Connecticut's plan to open care management sites for family services is intended to offer an alternative to child welfare involvement.

As the criminal justice system begins to take into account the research into emerging adults, the field is slowly adjusting to how it treats them.

A two-year federal probe has uncovered evidence that residents of a state-run juvenile lockup in Connecticut were improperly punished with solitary confinement and systematically deprived of mental health services and schooling.

A recent tragedy in Connecticut has helped to make the state's recent run of youth justice reform a hot-button issue at election time.

To address wealth disparity, Connecticut has set aside public funds that will establish trust funds for babies born July 1 and later.

Connecticut is one of the handful of states that is currently looking at raising the minimum age for juvenile court jurisdiction, in this case from 7 to 10 years old.

In response to a large influx of children into state care in the late 1990s resulting from tragedies that spawned fear within the agency, Connecticut developed a sprawling system of institutional settings to have enough “placements.”