Child Welfare N.R. Kleinfield and Mosi Secret of the New York Times chronicle the short and tragic life of Marchella Pierce, whose...
Child Welfare Nevada officials pitched a novel idea to state appropriators, reports Geoff Dornan of the Tahoe Daily Tribune: use funds from...
Child Welfare Emily Ramshaw of the Texas Tribune continues her excellent coverage of the child abuse registry in Texas, which has more...
Child Welfare A social worker who lied to get a judge to remove two children from their mother was promoted and now...
Child Welfare New Jersey made $51.7 million in payments on 317 different lawsuits stemming from the actions of its child welfare system,...
Child Welfare The push in California to open court hearings related to foster care placements will face its biggest test yet when...
Child Welfare Canadian researchers found a link between child abuse and depression, and it is the release of hormones related to stress,...
***Day number 823 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and...
Child Welfare Los Angeles County continues to struggle with finding a child welfare leader that politicians are happy with, reports Christina Villacorte...
Child Welfare North Dakota needs a child welfare ombudsman, among other things, writes activist John Ford in an op-ed that appeared in...
Child Welfare Yesterday, Gabrielle Canon of the Huffington Post began a two-parter on the lives of foster youth with a profile of...
Child Welfare A new task force has been created in Illinois with the goal of getting police and child protection services on...
Child Welfare A team of scientists at the University of Washington will attempt to study the effects of abuse and neglect on...
Child Welfare The Memphis Business Journal yesterday reported a notable merger in the child welfare world: multi-state family service provider Youth Villages...
Child Welfare Stacey Patton reports for Black Voice News on the report released a few months ago that found that racial bias...
Child Welfare Richard Wexler opines in Florida’s News-Press about the process of evaluation-by-horror-story, which he believes the News-Press and other Florida news...
Child Welfare Officials in Central Florida tell 13 News reporter Stephanie Coueignoux that deadly domestic violence cases are on the rise, and...
Child Welfare As deportations increase in the United States, reports Vikki Ortiz Healy of the Chicago Tribune, thousands of children who are...
Child Welfare Judges, services providers and community members in Tippecanoe County, Ind., gathered this week for their sixth summit on stopping child...
Child Welfare Andy Kroll, writing for Mother Jones, questions the progress of Mississippi’s child welfare system since Gov. Haley Barbour agreed to...