racial disproportionality

A case that challenges the severity of termination of parental rights practices in Michigan has made it to the state Supreme Court.

When kids fail to attend school, Minnesota lawmakers want to avoid calling out parents for "educational neglect."

In Texas, policy changes and state legislation have lessened the state's reliance on foster care.

A bill moving through the California Legislature takes aim at the problem of youth missing from foster care — and focuses on tribal children.

Authors describe the reasons for the Doris Duke Foundation's new commitment of $30 million to prevention work in child welfare

A youth-led advocacy group is calling on the child welfare system to decriminalize young people in foster care.

A healing agenda needs to end policies that perpetuate pain and expand access to a variety of practices that combat the effects of community trauma, writes Nora McCarthy.

By Farrah Mina

Buffalo, New York students spoke candidly on suspensions and how school norms make them feel in a recent restorative justice circle.