Child Welfare

A state committee has been investigating the crisis of parents who relinquish kids when they can't get adequate mental health treatment.

Parents who have survived domestic violence as adults or as children have a lot to add to child welfare discourse. We should invite them into co-design with open hearts and minds.

California lawmakers passed a package of bills to protect residents from the Trump Administration’s aggressive use of deportation and detention.

Imprint reporter Susanti Sarkar shadows a frontline New York City CPS worker to see what happens after a hotline call comes in.

Opinion: Family preservation is not the problem, but when services are piecemeal, under-resourced or lack timely oversight, children remain at risk.

For the first time, tribal data is being included in a federal database that is essential to understanding the nation’s child welfare system.

Alex Adams, confirmed today as Trump’s top official on children and families, slashed “rocks-in-shoes” regulations and boosted spending on foster care prevention.

A newly streamlined process for kinship caregivers opens access to financial assistance, counseling, respite and other resources.

Georgia Students will no longer be expelled for missing class. Instead, schools must ask where the kids are, and why they're absent.