One massive leak of middle-class Americans’ data seems to have the whole world in an uproar. A firm known as Cambridge Analytica...
Growing up in Flint, Michigan and being a part of the foster care system from age 13 until I aged out at...
Though mentoring has existed in my community of Dickinson, North Dakota for the past 23 years, youth in foster care, although most...
Is this child neglect? A couple takes their two children, ages 14 and 11, with them on an old “waterlogged” boat, five...
The struggle to reunite a Congolese woman swept up in an immigration crackdown with her little girl — and to reunite countless...
One of the problems with the whole child welfare debate is that we all say pretty much the same things — but...
I’ve worked in child welfare for over eight years and, from day one, I’ve been struck by the high numbers of black...
The so-called Family First Prevention Services Act has been hailed as a radical change in how child welfare is paid for by...
More than 30 years ago, when I was a reporter for a daily newspaper, I was assigned a story about what looked...
To the cliché “hard cases make bad law” allow me to add a corollary: Horror-story cases make horrible law.
When I turned 18, I thought the only thing that I needed to be happy and successful was to leave the home...
This brief from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation discusses the troubling state legislative push over the past several years to allow taxpayer-funded...
I’ve just caught up with an excellent 2014 story from ProPublica on how child welfare systems deal with parents who have mental...
Anthropologist Tina Lee immersed herself in the exotic culture of a child welfare agency, its folkways, “clients,” employees and contractors. She has...
The Annie E. Casey Foundation describes the education and employment barriers many foster youth face when leaving foster care and makes recommendations...
This new study from Child Trends describes the array of services available to foster youth in 47 states and territories until they...
Youth in the foster care system are leaving before they age out of the system, a new report finds.
Want to see how to pull the wool over the eyes of state lawmakers? Check out the testimony at a legislative hearing...
Bobby Cagle, a former foster child and caseworker, is set to take over as head of Los Angeles Department of Children and...
It has been said that what does not break you will make you stronger. Spirituality appears to be the mechanism...