Back in 2000, we accepted a five-week-old baby girl into our lives as foster parents. We were hoping to support her family until she could return to them. Seven months later, we got a call from the ...

I remember the case of a 6-year-old boy whose teacher called child protective services because he had missed school one too many times. No one asked why. If they had, they would’ve heard about the ...

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 ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Each year between 200,000 and 270,000 children and youth enter foster care placements with child welfare services, and many more children receive child welfare services while ...

Co-authored with Fellow Psychology Today Blogger Dr. Robert Foltz From southeast Texas to Florida, the Keys, Virgin Islands and most recently Puerto Rico, the shocking images from Hurricanes Harvey, ...

In a profession with a high burnout rate, low pay makes it even harder to hold on to caseworkers — contributing to poor outcomes for the families they serve. Credit: Getty Images. In my nearly 20 ...

“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 ...

The Partners in Development Foundation’s Kupa ‘Aina Program works with at-risk youth, some of whom have gone through the foster care and juvenile system, in aina-based problem solving, healing and ...