The effort to pay for more residential foster care with Medicaid money, a controversial proposition, has begun anew in ...

After being sued by Native Americans and disability rights advocates, New Mexico is making slow but steady progress on foster care reforms.

Working alongside social workers and under court supervision, DNA samples could be collected with informed consent and strict privacy protections to help connect kids in foster care to family, writes ...

In the Bay Area’s Family and Me program, foster youth select an “alternative” to their caregivers and get $3,000 a year for ...

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

A bipartisan bill has been introduced that would line up federal policy with a nascent effort to get more states on board ...

New York lawmakers advanced a bill to equip New York's state-run juvenile detention facilities with full-body scanners.

Illustration by Christine Ongjoco for The Imprint. An ambitious anti-poverty experiment in Michigan that provides expecting and new parents a jolt of cash assistance for the first several months of ...

Juvenile detention facilities, including the now defunct Thornton Youth Center in Sacramento County, have been housing foster youth simply because better placements aren’t available. Photo: Disability ...

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