For the first time, tribal data is being included in a federal database that is essential to understanding the nation’s child ...

Eduardo Mundo and David Muhammad urge California’s governor to sign a law that would end the practice of indefinite probation ...

Alex Adams, confirmed today in the Senate, slashed regulations and boosted spending on foster care prevention in Idaho.

Who do sealed records really protect? We need to ask because it’s not protecting the youth, writes April Miller.

Zirkel, CC BY 4.0. A New York bill passed by both houses of the Legislature seeks to shorten the time state and city agencies ...

To serve the children most in need, we must work to make adoption a clear and accessible path for all Americans able to ...

A newly streamlined process for kinship caregivers opens access to financial assistance, counseling, respite and other ...

The most recent federal data released by the Trump administration shows another year in which the number of youth in foster ...

Since 2023, youth as young as 13 have been held in solitary confinement units for weeks or months inside a Shelby County, ...

The process to award last year’s federal youth justice grants is finally underway, but a shutdown could halt it again ...

Earlier this year, a coalition of federal lawmakers re-introduced longstanding legislation that would create a federal commission to develop reparations proposals for Black descendants of enslaved ...