A panel will gather virtually next week for a Q&A on the Minnesota law aimed at reducing disproportionality in state child ...

Civil rights firms sued the Trump administration to access records on the government’s freeze of $10 billion in social ...

Child welfare systems must begin treating the post-termination phase with the same urgency used to justify termination itself ...

The Imprint’s Who Cares Project, which uses a 50-state survey to track foster care capacity in the United States, has been updated with new data from 2025. This is the only state-by-state collection ...

New York City Administration for Children’s Services Commissioner Rebecca Jones Gaston, left, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Photos: Wikimedia Commons In its effort to rein in city spending, New York City ...

Dr. Erinma Ukoha speaks at an April rally in Albany in support of the stalled bill. Photo by Mariama Sow, courtesy of the Bronx Defenders. But birthing mothers and their newborns are still routinely ...

The Nexus East Bethel Family Healing near Minneapolis treats youth struggling with severe mental and behavioral health issues. Last month, the Minnesota Department of Human Services ordered it shut ...

Child welfare referred Black parents to law enforcement 14,000 times in 7 years, despite no findings of abuse or neglect.

Utah officials announced Friday they’ll close down the boy’s campus at the Provo Canyon School, alleging poor treatment of ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Wednesday with a laundry list of instructions for his administration on child welfare. The order does not appear to direct new money to states – in one ...

New York state’s child welfare agency has started a new initiative to help fathers become better engaged in their children’s ...

Mental health conditions are the leading cause of maternal death among Native American women, federal researchers reported ...