In the Bay Area’s Family and Me program, foster youth select an “alternative” to their caregivers and get $3,000 a year for ...

I learned how to survive before I ever learned what it felt like to be safe.

Proposed state law would set aside survivor and disability payments for foster youth to use after they turn 18.

The Imprint did a first-ever survey of all 50 states, asking how often parents voluntarily turn their kids over to the child ...

New York lawmakers advanced a bill to equip New York's state-run juvenile detention facilities with full-body scanners.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to announce Rebecca Jones Gaston as the commissioner for New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services. Photos: Wikimedia Commons After months of deliberation and ...

In seven states, facilities reported detaining children “removed from their homes for abuse or neglect” because they lacked appropriate foster placements. Journalist Suzette Brewer of the Cherokee ...

In the final piece of The Long Way Home series, Ángela Banks writes about rebuilding a life steady enough to hold and safe enough to grow in.

Juvenile detention facilities, including the now defunct Thornton Youth Center in Sacramento County, have been housing foster youth simply because better placements aren’t available. Photo: Disability ...

L.A. County's Office of Transition Age Youth connects young people with serious mental health needs to therapeutic resources.