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...
The Chronicle of Social Change produced this first-of-its-kind report which details the growing problem of the national foster care housing crisis, in...
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to adopt an ambitious plan to divert thousands of the county’s youth...
In a previous column, I wrote about the federal law requiring states to make “reasonable efforts” to keep families together...
Anyone who truly knows me knows I'm not a very emotional person. They'll know I don't like expressing how I feel or...
California is attempting to switch to a victim-centered approach for its sexually trafficked youngsters. But...
Recently Youth Today published a column (“Pennsylvania County Has Wildly High Rate of Needless Child Abuse Investigations”) by Richard Wexler...
As “bathroom bills,” military transgender bans and elimination of protections for LGBTQ federal employees demonstrate, we are a long way from a...
It is child welfare’s equivalent of stop-and-frisk. It happens over and over again, it’s traumatic, it’s usually baseless...