The effort to pay for more residential foster care with Medicaid money, a controversial proposition, has begun anew in ...

Working alongside social workers and under court supervision, DNA samples could be collected with informed consent and strict privacy protections to help connect kids in foster care to family, writes ...

After being sued by Native Americans and disability rights advocates, New Mexico is making slow but steady progress on foster care reforms.

The Imprint did a first-ever survey of all 50 states, asking how often parents voluntarily turn their kids over to the child ...

New York lawmakers advanced a bill to equip New York's state-run juvenile detention facilities with full-body scanners.

A bipartisan bill has been introduced that would line up federal policy with a nascent effort to get more states on board ...

In the Bay Area’s Family and Me program, foster youth select an “alternative” to their caregivers and get $3,000 a year for ...

Illustration by Christine Ongjoco for The Imprint. An ambitious anti-poverty experiment in Michigan that provides expecting and new parents a jolt of cash assistance for the first several months of ...

A Congressional report found facilities in seven states incarcerated children simply because they lacked appropriate foster ...

Sources say New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to soon name the city's child welfare commissioner: Rebecca Jones ...