President Donald Trump’s immigration policies have squarely targeted the most vulnerable: children. Like most people, I was outraged last summer when I...
Da’Sean Harrison, 22, has ambitions to be a general contractor, a master of all trades. Now working on a construction job in...
If there’s one thing that really, really upsets America’s child welfare establishment, it’s pointing out the close resemblance between the Trump administration’s...
For many years Indiana has been an extreme outlier when it comes to taking children from their families. Year after year, Indiana...
The Family First Act, that vastly overhyped law that, according to those doing the hyping, is supposed to revolutionize child welfare finance...
In an op-ed of mine Youth Today published in March, I challenged the child welfare community to think more expansively about our...
Early on, many youth in foster care develop a certain resourcefulness that allows them to navigate thorny situations and push through layers...
Imagine being a parent who, despite your best efforts, cannot afford safe and adequate housing. Imagine that because of low earning power,...
Subject: Foster Care, Child/Youth Welfare, Safety, Family Support | Deadline: Dec. 1, 2018 | Amount: Up to $1,000,000
Elizabeth Eden chose the wrong morning to eat a poppy seed bagel for breakfast. Then she chose the wrong hospital to give...
Sandra Gasca-Gonzalez has been appointed vice president of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s (AECF) Center for Systems Innovation.
Here at Graham Windham, a youth development and family organization located in New York City, we rely heavily on data and ways...
When she first learned that journalist and Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King and his family were being harassed by a troll...
It’s no secret the foster care system is completely broken. Yet, there is a way to fix it.
Responding to revelations by Tampa, Florida television station WFLA-TV, revelations that included foster children forced to spend their days, and sometimes nights,...
I know from experience the precarious start so many of the children in the foster care system face. I myself was living...
Imagine if we could give every child in foster care a consistent, caring adult who walked alongside them for 12½ years, no...
At first glance, a “research brief” issued in March by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services concerning opioids and child...
The Juvenile Law Center released a new tool today that could help policymakers and advocates better understand and serve older youth —...
Destiny Adams was driving on Balboa Boulevard, on the way to visit her two younger sisters, when she got the call.