The first lady joined lawmakers to push for changes to the Chafee Foster Care Program for Successful Transition to Adulthood.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week announced a $37.2 million investment in apprenticeship and workforce training ...
A new report details the potential harms of probation for young people, from the perspectives of those with experience.
DeAnna Pittman of the Young Women’s Freedom Center addresses the crowd during a rally and press conference Tuesday outside ...
The effort to pay for more residential foster care with Medicaid money, a controversial proposition, has begun anew in ...
In the Bay Area’s Family and Me program, foster youth select an “alternative” to their caregivers and get $3,000 a year for ...
After being sued by Native Americans and disability rights advocates, New Mexico is making slow but steady progress on foster care reforms.
I spent much of my childhood first homeless with my mentally ill mother, then in the foster care system — shuffled from home to home, often hungry and abused, always invisible. I never knew the ...
New York lawmakers advanced a bill to equip New York's state-run juvenile detention facilities with full-body scanners.
The St. Anne Institute in New York is among the group facilities serving foster youth. Photo courtesy of the St. Anne Institute. A federal survey of states released last week found that more than half ...
A bipartisan bill has been introduced that would line up federal policy with a nascent effort to get more states on board ...