Overview / General

The Family Voices United campaign surveyed birth parents, kinship caregivers, foster/resource and adoptive parents, and young people with experience in the child welfare system across the country to compile their... (Read more)

Child welfare is a complex and deeply sensitive field, where the lives of vulnerable children intersect with the intricacies of family dynamics and societal support systems. In the pursuit of... (Read more)

What role do poverty and economic hardship play in child maltreatment and neglect? And how can child welfare systems prevent them? UW Professor of Social Work Kristen Slack will hare... (Read more)

A working group of more than 130 Arkansans with experience in child welfare and foster care released a list of 11 recommendations on Monday to improve the state’s foster system,... (Read more)

Our organizations, representing a diverse array of perspectives, are dedicated to promoting the mental health and wellbeing of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In this document, we have identified... (Read more)

Parental substance use is a key factor associated with infants and children ( particularly young children ) coming into foster care. 1,2 The opioid epidemic and increases in substance-related deaths... (Read more)

TOPEKA, Kansas — A recent wave of child welfare programs that are keeping kids out of the troubled foster care system are growing in Kansas because of federal investment. Read... (Read more)

This report presents Minnesota’s Family First Prevention Services Act, Title IV-E Five-year Prevention Plan. It begins by explaining the child welfare vision for placement prevention in Minnesota, child welfare values,... (Read more)

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A new report has found that Kansas foster system continues to make huge strides in placements and mental health services following a 2018 class action lawsuit... (Read more)

Casework strategies used to address disproportionality and disparity in the child welfare system are often the same strategies used to improve outcomes for all children and families; however, agencies are... (Read more)