The proposed Birth Center will provide resources to expecting or parenting mothers, including traditional medicine approaches ...

Child welfare systems are among the biggest recipients of the $16.5 billion in federal funds allocated to states to alleviate ...

Oppositional defiant disorder — the "bad kid" diagnosis — "greases the school-to-prison pipeline," a California psychiatrist says.

Advocates seeking to codify the rights of foster youth in Minnesota are making a last-minute push to have the bill considered ...

While some families endure hardship due to unnecessary CPS involvement, eliminating mandatory reporting can harm children, ...

Lawmakers are fighting for millions of dollars to support families across the state at risk of losing access to affordable ...

From a small station in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights, 18-year-old Kennia Camacho talks with teens about anxiety, stress and ...

In Los Angeles, a $4 billion settlement is the expected result a lawsuit levied by survivors of sexual assault as children in ...

Tim Carpenter has reported on Kansas for 38 years. He covered the Capitol for 16 years at the Topeka Capital-Journal and ...

This column relates accounts of family engagement by Together with Families (TwF), a nonprofit working to keep families together while avoiding child welfare involvement. The names of the family ...