The story has been updated to clarify that the total number of children and youth in the child welfare system. Many come under supervision of their county Department of Children and Family Services ...

Economy / Wisconsin has shown that it’s cost-effective and completely possible to keep families together by stabilizing their ...

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 ...

The child welfare system in the United States is a structure intended to protect children and ensure their well-being. However, for African American families, this system often serves as a mechanism ...

A half century ago today, child welfare reform began when the Daily News stunned the city with the first installment of a six-part series about the system by reporters William Heffernan and Stewart ...

A pilot project aimed at lowering the rate of medical professionals who overreport Black, Latino and Indigenous families to the child welfare system is launching in Michigan, the American Bar ...

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Words like broken, fragmented, siloed, exhausting, and low priority were among those coming out of a work session to tackle issues with the child welfare system as the 7th of 8 ...

As Gov. Patrick Morrisey pledged his administration will be more open about the challenges of West Virginia’s child welfare system, people who watch the system closely are hoping for the best. Shiloh ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – The Massachusetts House plans to vote Wednesday on legislation to make mostly technical changes to the operations of the state’s child welfare system, overhauling reporting ...

Five years ago, a national advocacy group and a local nonprofit filed a class-action lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Human Services. They didn’t want money. They wanted better care for kids ...