Wisconsin has shown that it’s cost-effective and completely possible to keep families together by stabilizing their housing. That’s not the only promising development in the field. Wendy Henderson, ...

Child deaths and critical injuries in Washington’s child welfare system hit a record high in 2025. State lawmakers are looking for solutions, and Democrats and Republicans each have proposals. They ...

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Words like broken, fragmented, siloed, exhausting, and low priority were among those coming out of a work session to tackle issues with the child welfare system as the 7th of 8 ...

Here are some ways to build relationships and to responsibly report on the system that pulls in some of the country’s most vulnerable people. In this Jan. 29, 2016, photo, a boy heads up the stairs of ...

Department of Human Services Cabinet Secretary Alex Mayer said he inherited a broken child welfare system when he took his appointment last month, but he was committed to improving the system and did ...

WINSTON-SALEM — The second time appears to be the charm when it comes to North Carolina building a statewide system to assess and track children in its child welfare system. The Partnership and ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) announced on Tuesday, July 22, three contracts have been awarded for the department’s new Comprehensive Child Welfare ...

Attorney Laurie Tochiki joins producer/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi to discuss the Malama ‘Ohana Working Group’s recommendations to the Legislature to improve the child welfare system, and how we can ...