youth homelessness

A range of concrete and economic supports could sufficiently stabilize families and children to the point that they could avoid traumatic involvement with the child welfare system, according to a newly updated policy brief by researchers from Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago.

The director of Georgia’s family and children’s services resigned after he demeaned a Black sheriff’s deputy on state property.

A special session bill before the feuding Texas Legislature takes aim at a practice widely referred to as hidden foster care.

Those in the child welfare system should reflect on our complicity in allowing a system to separate children from their parents without due process.

You’ve probably heard about the school-to-prison pipeline, but the link between placing foster youth in group homes and the adverse effects of the juvenile justice system that often follow often goes undiscussed.

A new Minnesota law guarantees access to court-appointed lawyers for low-income parents who are facing allegations of child abuse and neglect.

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.

Residents in the far reaches of Los Angeles County are fighting to block dozens of youthful offenders from being sent to nearby secure detention camps — a key component of statewide reforms to shut down California’s juvenile prisons.

Those who have faced housing insecurity or served the population sound off on what it's like, and what resources are needed to address the issue in Washington.