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Inspiration can be an opportunity that pops up in your life, leading you toward a wonderful path like it did for writer Esmeralda Camberos. She's a finalist in the Youth Voice Writing Contest, essay division.

Georgia has a new leader to advocate for the rights of children and youth in the child welfare system and the services they are entitled to.

"Home" by Nileh Irsan, is a finalist in the Youth Voice Writing Contest, poetry division.

California will use its share of a federal pandemic assistance fund to provide millions of dollars to young people currently in the state’s extended foster care system, and those who have left in the past four years.

A bill moving through the state Legislature aims to bring the same guaranteed monthly income, or UBI, to former foster youth statewide.

While some synonymize insecurity with terms like weakness, deficit, hardship and detriment, writer Ley-Lonni Woodruff connects insecurity to inspiration.

As California moves to close its youth prisons, it should invest in building youth leaders, writes Katarina Sayally.

West Virginia is splitting part of its welfare bureau into two smaller pieces as part of a broader effort to improve the child welfare system.

President Joe Biden has decided to tap the leader of the Obama Foundation’s My Brother’s Keeper Alliance program to oversee AmeriCorps, a federal agency that runs the largest service-learning program in the country.