On billboards, online and in newspapers, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson sums up his life story: “Foster care to ...

Seven former foster youth are suing a former pediatrician for sex abuse and a California county for covering it up.

The Minnesota Foster Youth Bill of Rights would include the right to “appropriate travel bags.” Final votes will be cast this ...

The Chronicle of Social Change recently sat down with New York State Senator Diane Savino, an outspoken, influential Staten Island Democrat. We mostly discussed pending legislation, but the ...

A young boy facing deportation proceedings without legal representation, as shown in the film “Unaccompanied: Alone in America.” Photo credit: Linda Freedman Washington state’s child welfare system is ...

The CalFresh bill attempts to remedy the new hurdles that have emerged. It is sponsored by the California State Council of ...

In Alameda County, California, the families going through dependency court at the San Leandro Juvenile Justice Center will soon have a new firm representing them — Alameda County Parent’s Counsel.

Supporters of the Indian Child Welfare Act outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022. Photo by Rosemary Stephens for The Imprint. A legal team that has repeatedly challenged the constitutionality of the ...

Closing some of California's county-run youth incarceration facilities is the only way to eliminate the excess capacity and ...

Reports of child abuse and neglect, system responses to those reports, and confirmed child victims have all declined since the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data released last week ...

In 1931, two years into the Great Depression, nine Black teenage boys between the ages of 13 and 19 boarded the same train going westward through Alabama in search of work. That train ride for Olen ...