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

Mississippi has expanded the list of crimes for which children as young as 13 must be prosecuted as adults and sent to adult ...

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

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

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

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

Latagia Tyronce’s two children were playing and one, a toddler, was burned by a blow-dryer. Despite the support of the children’s grandmother, and the compelling evidence that this was an accident, ...

Alabama has reached a settlement in a federal lawsuit that accused it of segregating foster youth with mental health ...

First Lady Melania Trump, seated, at a press conference with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as they announce a new effort to expand foster youth access to “Trump Accounts.” Photo by Michael ...