News Briefs

New York is launching a pilot program to provide cash assistance to families who have been under investigation by CPS.

Advocates with the campaign Debt Free Justice earned Telly awards for short films about fines and fees in the juvenile justice system. 

Four mobile mental health crisis teams will soon respond to 911 calls in Wichita. a reform recommended after the 2021 death of Cedric Lofton. 

New York has increased rent subsidies for foster youth aging out of the system for the first time since 1988.

Leadership at a prominent 5-year-old advocacy group for Minnesota foster youth will change hands next month. Hoang Murphy, founder of Foster Advocates, is stepping down as executive director of the St.

Although states across the country now offer federally funded housing, job training and educational opportunities for foster youth after age 18, a new report reveals that stable housing, supportive family and social connections and access to college “remain beyond reach for too many young people with foster care experience.” 

After testimony from formerly incarcerated Black youth, UN-appointed experts today called for an end to solitary confinement for children. 

Alabama’s Department of Youth Services can now hire people with previous findings of neglect, which once made applicants ineligible.

Two former Lakeside Academy staffers pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter in the 2020 death of 16-year-old Cornelius Fredericks.