California's insurance crisis now includes the foster care system. The main provider of foster care agencies is dropping its ...

Children and young adults in the U.S. foster care system suffer from mental health disorders and die by suicide at far higher rates than the general population, yet the system doesn’t uniformly screen ...

A California couple was convicted earlier this week after their "extreme" health views led to their infant son suffering severe medical issues.

With cuts to some child welfare programs, California's new budget provided an emergency bailout to private foster family agencies.

DHS launches child welfare initiative to locate at-risk migrant children placed with unvetted sponsors, uncovering cases of abuse, exploitation, and labor trafficking.

Nearly six months after a series of devastating wildfires, California’s property insurance crisis is far from stabilized.

Children services advocates are pushing the Ohio leaders to restore funding for foster care and wellness campuses – modeled after Cuyahoga County’s – to help address soaring costs and a ...

The alliance’s president and CEO said in a statement that without the changes it had requested private foster agencies in California were “uninsurable.” The alliance’s decision has thrown California’s ...

An audit shows that Louisiana's child welfare staffing needs remain high despite years of criticism of the agency over employee shortages.

Several California bills could lead to significant reforms of the state’s environmental review law, with the goal of addressing the state’s ongoing housing crisis. One of the bills, Assembly … ...

Concern over rising gas prices and fleeing gas refineries has California lawmakers wondering if the state's gas crisis is getting worse because of them.

West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey pledged on Wednesday to improve transparency, accountability and outcomes in the state's childcare welfare system."I think ...