On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted a motion to adopt a “Family...
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Hearings: Young, First-Time Parents Face ‘Civil Death Penalty’ in a Ventura Child Welfare Court
200 Beats a Minute It was the week before Christmas 2018. Sometime around noon that day, the...
As Drug Crises Surge, Babies Enter Foster Care at Higher Rate
By Teresa Wiltz, Stateline Babies and toddlers are entering the foster care system at a higher...
Op-Ed: How the War On Drugs Has Torn Families of Color Apart
There was wall-to-wall media coverage of the forced family separations happening at the US-Mexico...
For Foster Youth in Crisis, Advocates Seek Another Option Besides 911
By Claudia Boyd-Barrett, California Health Report Foster parents often have trouble getting prompt...
California’s Child Welfare Reform Threatened by Slow Pace of Caregiver Approval and Group Homes
Implementation struggles have caused the price of California’s child welfare reform to soar by an...