Families under financial strain can face intense scrutiny, where everyday struggles may be misread. Learn what really matters ...

Education remains a central priority of the Marcos administration as proven by its push to strengthen both learning ...

(The Center Square) – The number of missing foster children on the radar of the state’s child welfare agency will be clarified this week as a potential Illinois Statehouse candidate looks for answers.

When my first child was 18 months old, I decided it was time for a redo. It’s not that I wanted to replace my son, but I did want a different kind of birth experience. His delivery had ended with ...

Are child-welfare investigations traumatic for families? How should we weigh that trauma against learning if children are in danger and ensuring parents change their behavior? New York City’s ...

Franklin County Children Services is ending its contract with The Buckeye Ranch's Permanent Family Solutions Network at the end of 2025. The agency will transfer 375 open child welfare cases in-house ...

Child welfare professionals work in a stressful environment. Seeing families at risk of having children removed from the home frequently results in occupational trauma, burnout and negative health ...

Changes are coming to the Arizona Department of Child Safety, according to state leaders, following a string of child deaths. Discussions on DCS intensified following the deaths of Rebekah Baptiste, ...

Prince William fights back tears in emotional interview on suicide With U.S. port fees on Chinese-built ships coming, ocean freight carriers scramble to avoid surprise financial hit I Cooked Death Row ...

LOUISVILLE — When I began reporting on child welfare, I brought with me the baggage that plagues all humans: misconceptions and blind spots about a system that I had never lived through. I had been ...

Here are some ways to build relationships and to responsibly report on the system that pulls in some of the country’s most vulnerable people. In this Jan. 29, 2016, photo, a boy heads up the stairs of ...