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12/5/2022
Farrah Mina
Elliott Odendahl shows her lifebook in her office, where she works as a therapist. Photo by Nicole Neri.The records Arnisia Coleman has of her childhood are mostly court documents. Judges’ orders on foster care placements dating back to when she was 3.
6/13/2022
Opinion
Tim O’Hanlon
Ohio could support adoptive parents on par with those who foster. Tim O'Hanlon asks: Why don't they?
5/31/2022
The Imprint staff reports
More than a hundred children have died while in the custody of Ohio’s foster care system since 2015, a local news investigation found.
4/20/2022
Sara Tiano
In the year since an Ohio police officer killed Ma'Khia Bryant, a teenager in foster care, the state has created an ombuds office for youth and families.
10/25/2021
The for-profit Sequel Youth & Family Services faces regulatory and legal complaints for its management of residential care facilities for teens.
8/3/2021
Nelly Braxton
Dual-status youth have experience with both the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. A workbook offers ideas for local and state governments to develop better practices, procedures and policies that serve these young people.
8/2/2021
John Kelly
Federal judges have dismissed two lawsuits filed over the treatment of relative caregivers in Ohio and of foster youth in West Virginia.
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6/7/2021
A federal judge has been trying for years to get Ohio to pay kinship caregivers their due under federal law, but counties say there’s not enough money from the state to make it feasible.
6/4/2021
Lawmakers are calling for the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate the foster care experience of Ma’Khia Bryant, the 16-year-old Black girl who police shot and killed on April 20.
5/25/2021
Deddtrease Edwards
Deddtrease Edwards writes that Black and brown communities need to continue to fight for justice.
