Bob Schwartz, the charismatic figure in youth justice reform who co-founded the Juvenile Law Center, has died after a ...

A national project documents the systemic abuse endured by generations of Indigenous people under the government’s boarding ...

Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden wants the DOJ to investigate whether Medicaid fraud has been committed by taxpayer-supported ...

Dozens of New Yorkers testified today about problems with the way child abuse and neglect allegations are reported and ...

A lawsuit claims Illinois has for nearly two decades failed to provide special education services to young people locked up ...

Generational trauma, also known as transgenerational, intergenerational, and multi-generational trauma, are trauma responses ...

A bipartisan bill now before Congress would require states to track their reliance on “hidden foster care," a widespread but ...

In America, the foster care system’s tentacles, entwined with those of the prison systems, reach far beyond its boundaries, ...

Among child welfare scholars, advocates and national leaders, a strong resistance to discussing child maltreatment fatalities ...

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Administrator Liz Ryan. Provided photo. Fifty years ago this month, the landmark Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Act was signed into law.

Pictured above are New York City child welfare experts who’ve discussed plans to “narrow the front door” to the child welfare system. (Left to right: Kimberly Watson, Michelle Yanche, Melanie Hartzog, ...

New Jersey has sued a private hospital system over its practice of universal testing on all new parents, which the state alleges is being carried out without the informed consent of parents and is ...