T.J. Lane, 17, walks into his High School in Ohio and shoots six fellow students, killing three. “Lefty” is a gang member in Los Angeles, doing life in prison for shooting a...
05/23/2022
Although government spending on the child welfare system totaled US$33 billion in 2018, the most recent year for which an estimate is available, it’s still failing to meet all...
05/23/2022
The lack of communication between Texas’ child welfare agency and its juvenile justice system puts foster care children at risk, Texas foster care watchdogs said in a Wednesday...
05/23/2022
The Social Order Technology and Innovation Six years ago, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, launched a program that used predictive analytics to help child-welfare workers sort...
05/22/2022
NEW YORK, NY – On May 16, Children’s Rights and the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School submitted a letter to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial...
05/21/2022
As a former foster youth, I applaud the U.S. Surgeon General’s recent advisory on Protecting Youth Mental Health that highlighted ways to support children involved with the...
05/18/2022
“It’s time for the governor to be a leader and figure out how to solve this problem in Southern Illinois,” Sen. Terri Bryant, pictured at a news conference in 2015, said. Two...
05/18/2022
Sexual abuse is any form of sexual violence, including rape, child molestation, incest, and similar forms of non-consensual sexual contact. Most sexual abuse experts agree...
05/17/2022
Developmental Milestones Matter: Helping Caregivers and Providers Track Children’s Early Development By the Team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’sLearn the...
05/17/2022
A Harvard study that followed children ages 7 to 15 late in 2020 found that about two-thirds of them had clinically significant symptoms of anxiety and depression, as compared...
05/16/2022
The court-appointed watchdogs expressed concern after learning that a caretaker accused of exploiting children at a state-licensed facility in Bastrop had been previously fired...
05/16/2022
We must do better for our children Save Across our state, we see the effect the opioid crisis has had on West Virginia’s children and families. Reading the headlines regarding...
05/14/2022