Citing a backlog of unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors, the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement has awarded five contracts for long-term foster care.

The chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court had a lot to say about the child welfare system in her 12-page dissent of a recent appeal

First 5 LA recently announced its new executive director, Karla Pleitéz Howell, will start the job in January.

JooYeun Chang, who served as a top child welfare official in both the Biden and Obama administrations, has been named director of child well-being at the New York City-based Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. 

Arkansas' most populous county has seen skyrocketing foster care and worker turnover in the past two years. The state is bringing in a new consulting firm started by former federal leaders to rethink things.

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

Liz Ryan, the founder of Youth First Initiative and the Campaign for Youth Justice, has been appointed by President Joe Biden to lead the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).

The latest federal numbers on juvenile incarceration have been released via the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement, a data set updated for the Department of Justice every two years by the National Center for Juvenile Justice.

Groups are urging the Biden administration to discourage states from charging fees and fines to incarcerated juveniles, saying they unfairly load debt on low-income youth and their families.