Norton-Cruz knows that because of data collected by Alaska’s Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)— a grantee of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s PRAMS program, ...

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children coordinates with law enforcement on as many cases as possible to try ...

A rural school district, a college, and a science museum in western Colorado will all open new or expanded child care centers ...

In 2024 alone-- the center handled nearly 30,000 cases with more than 1,200 from North C Carolina. Today is National Missing Children's Day; a solemn reminder and a national call to action to never ...

If the car is locked or the child is too young to be able to get out on their own, leaving them inside could lead to death or suffocation due to oxygen depletion and rising temperatures inside the car ...

FLORIDA — A man is in jail after an argument with his stepson over Fortnite turned into a deadly shooting, according to WFTS ...

Edgar Baerga, 47, of Stafford Township, was cleaning a gun at his residence on Saturday afternoon when the weapon fired and a round struck a 13-year-old girl on the right side of her torso, according ...

The most recent Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey data, from 2021, show that suffering only increasing. The percentage ...

Vanderia Britton was arrested for allegedly assaulting a handcuffed 14-year-old girl at a youth detention center.

As summer approaches, many children eagerly anticipate the break from school, but for children diagnosed with autism, the ...

When children suffer trauma, it harms their bodies as well as their minds. Dr. Megan T. Sandel, co-director of the Grow ...

NPR visits a hospital in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, in a town where many residents have fled but some young couples ...