New York Office of Children and Family Services

To reduce firearm-related injuries, deaths and suicides among children, child welfare agencies across New York are distributing gun locks.

New York lawmakers have passed a bill that would end a common practice widely despised among foster youth: moving between homes with their possessions dumped in a garbage bag.

Two pieces of legislation in New York would end the common practice of giving foster youth trash bags to transport their belongings.

New York's child welfare agency is facing criticism from the Office of the Comptroller over its child fatality reviews and issues with the state-run child protection hotline.

A pending bill would enhance representation for relatives when vital decisions are made about children caught up in the foster care system.

A psychologist working for the state has been arrested in New York on charges that she sexually assaulted eight detained youth.

Attorney Suzanne Miles-Gustave takes over this year as New York’s acting commissioner of the Office of Children and Family Services.

In New York, a community-based nonprofit offers performing arts as therapy to girls placed in the Brentwood Residential Center, a juvenile facility for low-level offenders.