Family

By Sarah Winograd This column relates accounts of family engagement by a nonprofit working to keep families together while avoiding child welfare involvement. The names of the family members have been changed to provide anonymity.

By Sarah Winograd Five children were left waiting at a day care late on Friday night, May 9, 2025, in Cobb County, Georgia. Their parents, Marcus and Danielle, had both been arrested within the same week for driving with suspended licenses.

This spring, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) temporarily halted a pilot project to test new approaches to measure the effectiveness of the federal welfare program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF.

Resource centers serving families are expanding in Minnesota, due to investments in foster care prevention that state lawmakers committed to in 2023.

It's time to reimagine how we approach substance dependence within families, by supporting rather than dismantling them, writes Stacy Phillips.

More possibilities open up when families are supported through a crisis, given access to tangible resources and empowered to lead.

Lawmakers are fighting for millions of dollars to support families across the state at risk of losing access to affordable child care. 

Kelley Fong, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, joins to discuss her work studying the impact of state child welfare systems and their policies on families.

Paul DiLorenzo comments on his concerns about how the current culture within the executive branch will impact federal policy on families