Best of 2022

This year, The Imprint covered the prioritization of kinship care from Washington state to Washington, D.C.

In 2022, Imprint reporters told the stories of several of the leaders on the front line of youth justice reform in California.

In California, the number of youth in foster care on psychiatric meds has fallen, but other states continue to keep inadequate records.

For all the efforts to improve the academic experiences of foster youth, significant barriers to education remain.

A selection of The Imprint’s most impactful stories from the past year By The Imprint staff reports

In 2022, The Imprint reported on state policies that used child protective services to target transgender youth and their families.

In 2022, The Imprint covered innovative community approaches to curbing youth violence, from California to New York.

The workforce crisis continues to plague the child welfare field, where increasingly stressful jobs have worsened already-high turnover rates. 

We had some amazing guests join us on The Imprint Weekly Podcast this year, and we reviewed the entire 2022 archive to bring you clips from some of the very best!