The Heath and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has announced additional $350 million for th...

Alaska House of Representatives has passed two bills, House Bill 123 and House 184 . House Bill 123 formally recogn...

California coalition of parent-led grassroots group, Families in Resistance works against oppression and marginalizatio...

Florida House Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee has unanimously approved HB 1473 , that aims to reduce trauma in c...

Georgia Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) and the Mexican consulate renewed their memorandum of understand...

Florida Senate Committee on Children, Families and Elder Affairs has approved Senate Bill 1526 to help ensure young adu...

Federal child welfare reform is changing foster care to eliminate group homes and creating "professional foster care pa...

California and Nevada are using a special waiver process to reach out to the most vulnerable young people who are under...

NEW  Legislation update from   Voice for Adoption  advocacy can be found  here . Latest...

NEW  Legislation update from   Voice for Adoption  advocacy can be found  here . Latest u...

NEW Legislation update from   Voice for Adoption  advocacy can be found  here . Latest update...

NEW Legislation update from   Voice for Adoption  advocacy can be found  here . Latest update...

US - Senate and House of Representatives approved H.R. 133, Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021 , for a $900 billion pa...

Florida Charlotte County Sheriff is advocating for the CHILD Act (H.R. 8443) . This would allow federal funding for the...

The American Bar Association is advocating to end unreasonable restraints, seclusion and searches of children. Three res...

Ohio Governor's Advisory Council finalizes recommendations for the Ohio foster care system. The Children Services Transf...

Kentucky General Assembly's Child Welfare Oversight and Advisory Committee on Monday heard foster parents who expressed...

A recent national online panel discussion of the US child welfare system indicated that COVID-19 had had both a negati...

US - Stimulus package will include a bill, the Supporting Foster Youth and Families through the Pandemic Act , that will...

Kansas Strong for Children and Families organization is launching a collaborative pilot project, Parent/Youth Facilitati...

US - The Children's Protection Act lead by Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) requires all proposed federal rules to...

US  senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Todd Young (R-IN) have introduced a bill to help connect grandparents and relative...

The US Children's Bureau, Casey Family Programs, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Prevent Child Abuse America are partn...

California Senate Bill 912 would provide further assistance to the extended foster care program by continuing to provid...

Sanctuary Palm Springs in Arizona was founded to address the needs of transition-aged LGBTQ youth in the foster care sy...

Florida nonprofit, All Star Foundation has created a five acre campus containing six houses for foster families to take...

California child welfare workers prioritize in-person visits to identify abuse in June. Though virtual platforms are...

The Trump Administration has submitted a brief to be filed by the Department of Justice with the Supreme Court arguing th...

Arizona tuition-free trade school, Sigma College University Trade School (Sigma CUTS) is helping low-income community m...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced youth in foster care will not be aging out of the system during the pandemic. Fost...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom pledges $42 million to children and families involved in the child welfare system. This reli...

US courts are halting in person family visits which is devastating to biological parents who are battling to regain custo...

In Arizona , the US Supreme Court has declined to review a 2015 lawsuit alleging gross failures in the foster care syst...

US - Representatives Karen Bass (D-Calif.) and Danny Davis (D-Ill.) are urging colleges and universities to include vuln...

Connecticut bill would provide attorneys to young adults over 18 in the care of the Department of Children and Families....