Best of 2020

A roundup of The Imprint’s most impactful stories in 2020 By The Imprint staff reports Congress approved legislation in 2018 that will reduce federal spending on group homes and institutions. Since that law was signed, several investigative stories in our pages and others around the country have exposed the shortcomings that prompted it. 

A roundup of The Imprint’s most impactful stories in 2020 By The Imprint staff reports In 2010, California approved legislation that would extend foster care until age 21 for youth who otherwise would be forced out on their own at 18.

A roundup of The Imprint’s most impactful stories in 2020 By The Imprint staff reports In March of 2016, Latonia Rolbiecki’s grandson was born at Fairview Hospital in Wyoming, Minnesota, his body riddled with the effects of his mother’s drug and alcohol abuse.

A roundup of The Imprint’s most impactful stories in 2020 By The Imprint staff reports The year 2020 is almost over and what a year it has been! Several issues and events sparked major outrage and discussions about how those issues affect those who have experienced foster care, homelessness and juvenile incarceration around the world.

A roundup of The Imprint’s most impactful stories in 2020 By The Imprint staff reports The killing of George Floyd, and the summer of protests that followed this tragedy, spurred new conversations about the appropriate role of law enforcement.

A roundup of The Imprint’s most impactful stories in 2020. By The Imprint staff reports Two stories The Imprint covered in 2020 reflect the growing concern over how much influence drug testing has on child welfare system involvement. 

A roundup of some of The Imprint’s most impactful stories in 2020. By The Imprint staff reports The Family First Prevention Services Act, the most consequential rewrite of federal child welfare policy in decades, was signed into law in 2018 and took effect at the end of 2019, making 2020 the first full year of effect.

A roundup of some of The Imprint’s most impactful stories in 2020. By The Imprint staff reports California is ramping up a $140 million plan to screen many of the state’s children for adverse childhood experiences, often referred to as ACES.

A roundup of some of The Imprint’s most impactful stories in 2020 By The Imprint staff reports David Anderson founded the Chicago-based Safe Families as a faith-based alternative to the child welfare system, designed to provide needed respite for parents in crisis.