The New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department has yet to release a public dashboard reporting various child welfare metrics, including the number of children who have died on the state’s ...

Maine lawmakers are again considering whether to establish an independent Office of the Child Advocate to help reform the ...

Advocates say the recent trial of a Burlington, Ont., couple is a symptom of nationwide failures in the child welfare system.

"By blaming the parents you're diverting attention away from the structural reasons," argues scholar Dorothy Roberts ...

Samantha Johnson, Sophia Mason's mother, was originally arrested on suspicion of murder but entered a plea to voluntary manslaughter, two counts of child abuse and two enhancements for causing great ...

Here are some ways to build relationships and to responsibly report on the system that pulls in some of the country’s most vulnerable people. In this Jan. 29, 2016, photo, a boy heads up the stairs of ...

When covering the complicated, often opaque web known as the child welfare system, it can be easy to forget the first word of that phrase: child. It’s imperative that we don’t. Reporters should center ...

Cali Derksen was 14 when she threw a few things into a backpack and left home, fleeing weapons and threats of violence for ...

WINSTON-SALEM — The second time appears to be the charm when it comes to North Carolina building a statewide system to assess and track children in its child welfare system. The Partnership and ...

Attorney Laurie Tochiki joins producer/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi to discuss the Malama ‘Ohana Working Group’s recommendations to the Legislature to improve the child welfare system, and how we can ...

As Gov. Patrick Morrisey pledged his administration will be more open about the challenges of West Virginia’s child welfare system, people who watch the system closely are hoping for the best. Shiloh ...