Today, many children are experiencing serious social and emotional problems. Some children are victims of trauma and abuse, while others are dealing with problems in school or mental health issues.

Maine lawmakers are again considering whether to create a separate department to handle child welfare matters after years of ...

In a House divided, Republicans and Democrats have found surprising common ground: Reforming the nation’s sprawling child welfare system. The Protecting America’s Children by Strengthening Families ...

We have long known that racism and discrimination are deeply entrenched within the American child welfare system. The research is clear—according to a 2021 study published in the American Journal of ...

Where to start with the Oregon Department of Human Services? The agency responsible for child welfare lands in court and in the news on a tragically routine basis over its care for abused children.

Readers discuss a guest essay about removing children from troubled homes. To the Editor: Re “To Protect Kids, We Need More Foster Care, Not Less,” by Naomi Schaefer Riley (Opinion guest essay, May 13 ...

Western Michigan University is now offering a pathway for students interested in becoming child welfare professionals to learn more about child welfare-related work. Graduate students currently ...

“I think about the families separated in Missouri over the years, not because of abuse or neglect, but because they could not afford to pay a bill or new clothes for their kids.” That was House Ways ...

The story has been updated to clarify that the total number of children and youth in the child welfare system. Many come under supervision of their county Department of Children and Family Services ...

A 7-year-old girl left unsupervised with a 17-year-old boy at a Department of Social Services office was sexually abused. A teenage girl spent nine months in an emergency room, essentially in ...

Celine Gomez, a UC Davis graduate now at California State University, Northridge, is among the hundreds of individuals receiving stipends for undergraduate or graduate studies in social work through a ...

Western Michigan University is now offering a pathway for students interested in becoming child welfare professionals to learn more about child welfare-related work. Child welfare workers will work ...