She’s credited with being a “visionary,” “a role model” and a literal life-saver for some of the most vulnerable girls and young...
For about three months, Karen Kelly would drive around Enumclaw, Wash., after midnight looking for her 13-year-old daughter, Hollie. She carried Hollie’s...
When it comes to child development we have tons of information about how kids’ social, emotional, physical, spiritual and intellectual abilities grow...
“You just don’t get it! When I emancipate I don’t want to move away and go off to college. I’m going back...
Born to a prostitute with a drug problem, April (a pseudonym for her privacy) was removed from her home about two decades...
It was a bleak time for many foster youth and their families in need when Kids’ Safehouse ceased operations in January 2015,...
It’s nearing the close of normal business hours on a Wednesday afternoon at the Albuquerque, N.M., offices of the Children, Youth and...
Before Kasandra A. Gandara first became a member of the Las Cruces City Council, she was in the trenches as a case...
Rhonda Goodenough, an employee of the Children, Youth and Families Department in McKinley County for more than 15 years, claims that she...
It’s already tough sledding for New Mexico children and families in the state’s fractured foster care and child welfare systems. Those challenges...
What can youth advocates in rural New England learn about reducing teen drug and alcohol use from a small island nation just...
New Beginnings is very excited to be adding a new Director of Programs at our established youth-services organization. This position will join...
Racial and class bias are child welfare’s original sins. So it’s no wonder so many in the field are desperate to whitewash...
Eighteen-year-old Christopher Frierson is sitting tall and riding high. In one weekend in spring 2019, he competed in an English-saddle horse show,...
It’s pretty to believe that if one only puts in the time, he can save a wayward child. It doesn’t always work...
On one Thursday in March, James Dobbins was towering over a group of teen boys as they all headed to a community...
It’s been seven years since my son Daniel was murdered, along with 19 of his classmates and six educators, at Sandy Hook...
I’ve been taking all my pain out on this paper I’m sorry I’m still stuck up in this cell a year later...
Remember the Family First Act? That’s the vastly overhyped federal legislation touted as a revolutionary change in how child welfare is financed....
Jolene Martinez of Las Cruces couldn’t be more thrilled to be an adoptive parent to a second foster child, who she adopted...