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

Oregon child welfare officials have not directly responded to the federal government, but are tweaking the policy following a ...

L.A. County's Office of Transition Age Youth connects young people with serious mental health needs to therapeutic resources.

Trump child welfare leader Alex Adams describes his goals for the pilot test of a new approaching to state program ...

House appropriators heard from witnesses about how to increase and stabilize the adoption of youth in the foster care system ...

Data shows some recipients have graduated from their post-secondary institutions at higher rates than their peers nationally.

Shaanth Kodialam Nanguneri is a reporter based in Portland, Oregon covering Gov. Tina Kotek and the Oregon Legislature. He grew up in the Bay Area, California and went on to study at UCLA. He is ...

They make foster care seem like you will be in a safer place. But my experience in foster care was anything but that, writes ...

A proposed revision to federal law would provide more funding to tribal communities working to prevent child abuse and ...

A California bill called the Hug Act would allow youth confined in county-run juvenile detention facilities the right to ...

The initiative is not a complete solution, but it represents acknowledgment that transition requires accountability, writes ...