Kristina Permitin traveled 90 miles from Roscoe, Illinois, to a job fair in a spacious basketball gymnasium on Chicago’s West Side to see what working at the state’s child welfare agency was ...
Dozens of youth advocates marched on the State House Wednesday afternoon to demand a role in selecting the new leader of the ...
A proposal to reform Maine’s beleaguered child welfare system by creating a new department in state government received strong support in the Maine Senate Wednesday from lawmakers frustrated ...
The Department of Justice discovered alleged "inconsistencies" in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' use of some federal grant money, according to a new report. Willis has risen to ...
While 28 candidates for governor have filed with the Public Disclosure Commission, only one is currently facing independent expenditures in opposition.
Demanding more age-appropriate interventions for young adults charged with crimes, youth activists and formerly incarcerated individuals urged lawmakers Thursday to advance bills that would overhaul ...
It is natural to assume that the author of a book on “transforming child protective services” would be interested in children. As such, the most surprising thing about “Broken,” Jessica ...
In January 2001, five-year-old Logan Marr was found dead in the basement of her foster mother's home in Chelsea, Maine. The foster mother, Sally Schofield, was a highly respected former caseworker ...
Parents are supposed to have 10 to 14 days to respond to accusations, but instead are sometimes waiting weeks or months while ...
The Court Improvement Program (CIP) provides federal grant funds to state court systems to promote the continuous quality of improvement of child welfare court proceedings and enhance and expand ...
A special State Department panel told Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the U.S. should restrict arms sales to Israeli ...
The decision rules that minors at open-air sites were in legal federal custody and must receive safe shelter, even if they ...