President Donald Trump has nominated Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Director Alex Adams to lead the agency that handles child welfare services and federal funding and policy for many other ...

Hennepin County has accused the Trump administration of unlawfully diverting up to $86 million for teen pregnancy prevention.

A New York State judge transferred the case of a teenage girl charged with murder and arson to a Columbia County family court ...

A yearslong pattern of child deaths led to a federal takeover of Red Lake Nation’s child welfare agency last month, according ...

A California bill adds new measures to prevent future abuse in foster homes, residential centers and juvenile detention ...

Ryan Hanlon. Video still from an April 24, 2023, appearance on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. A year into his second term, President Donald Trump has appointed an experienced adoption advocate to lead ...

Petitioners argued that ambiguities in a new child welfare disproportionality law led to wrongful termination of a father's ...

Candice Broce, director of Georgia’s Division of Family and Children Services, answers lawmakers’ questions during a Thursday hearing about her agency’s $85 million budget deficit. Photo by Jordan ...

The remains of a dozen children who died at the notorious Carlisle Indian Industrial School were transported home to tribal ...

Juvenile detention facilities, including the now defunct Thornton Youth Center in Sacramento County, have been housing foster youth simply because better placements aren’t available. Photo: Disability ...