In 2022, the World Health Organization estimated that 1 billion children were maltreated each year around the globe. Maltreatment such as neglect and abuse are types of adverse childhood experiences, ...

LOUISVILLE — When I began reporting on child welfare, I brought with me the baggage that plagues all humans: misconceptions and blind spots about a system that I had never lived through. I had been ...

Are child-welfare investigations traumatic for families? How should we weigh that trauma against learning if children are in danger and ensuring parents change their behavior? New York City’s ...

Empowering Neurodivergent Individuals, Families, and Professionals Through Neuroscience, Compassion, and Practical ...

“These rates of over-investigation are state-sanctioned family policing. Even where investigations are warranted and allegations are substantiated, the investigative process is often coercive and ...

Washington state made two major changes to child welfare policy in the last several years to keep more babies and children with their families of origin. Almost a year ago, KUOW’s Eilís O’Neill set ...

Most parents know the feeling—that quick flash of panic when a child falls, bumps a table, or wakes up with a bruise you don’t remember seeing the day before. For many families, it’s a passing worry.

Western Michigan University is now offering a pathway for students interested in becoming child welfare professionals to learn more about child welfare-related work. Graduate students currently ...

SAN ANTONIO — Child welfare advocates and community leaders say federal immigration enforcement policies are placing hundreds of children in Texas at risk of long-term emotional and developmental harm ...