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

Brittany and Josh Patterson of Georgia with their four children, including Soren, left, who drew police attention after walking from home to a store at age 10. Provided photo. Brittany Patterson ...

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.

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

Authors of a new study found the rate of criminal justice involvement in children’s families tripled between 2000 and 2019 — ...

The Trump administration's top child welfare official has scaled back recommendations for states that license foster parents, ...

The ACF's “A Home for Every Child” is an opportunity for change. Our challenge is to invest in families, act quickly and ...

A group of four legislators have introduced a bill that would make it easier for youth in foster care to be eligible for and connect with federal housing vouchers. The Housing Opportunities for Moving ...

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