The nonprofit Keeping Families Connected Minnesota, launched in early October, provides free or low-cost legal resources to kinship caregivers in the state. Illustration by Christine Ongjoco. The ...

All 50 states have opted in to the ACF initiative, which has a goal of increasing the ratio of foster homes to children in ...

The new Georgia Foster Care Scholarship offers a maximum of $30,000 per year for college, starting as early as the coming ...

Aiming to steer young people away from deeper involvement in the criminal justice system, a law enacted in California last ...

Long before we had child welfare or juvenile justice agencies as we know them today, the state was already punishing ...

California lawmakers will provide $5 million to help address the mental health care gaps for youth adopted from the state's ...

Bethany Christian Services will now require staff and prospective caregivers to disavow gay marriage and transgender rights.

Illustration by Christine Ongjoco for The Imprint. Mississippi has expanded the list of crimes for which children as young as 13 must be prosecuted as adults and sent to adult prisons. Prior to Senate ...

Trump's Office of Refugee Resettlement wants to assess unaccompanied minors for "dangerousness" and intensify vetting for ...

After recording more than 380 stories from Indigenous boarding school survivors in 19 states, a national oral history project ...

With the ‘orphan tax’ under fire thanks to pressure from federal leaders, Richard Wexler writes the ‘reunification ransom’ ...