Reporters should center kids and families in ways that give them agency and avoid retraumatizing them, at least to the extent that’s possible. That means thinking about welfare and children ...

Sen. Nikki Torres, in a phone interview, said the reports can reveal patterns of where the state’s child welfare system is failing, and whether changes need to be made.

Here are some ways to build relationships and to responsibly report on the system that pulls in some of the country’s most vulnerable people. In this Jan. 29, 2016, photo, a boy heads up the stairs of ...

Before Missouri’s new child welfare leader even printed out business cards, she made stickers. A lot of them. “Centered on safety,” they read. And these stickers, Sara Smith says, remind her of an ...

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 ...

DAVIDSON COUNTY, N.C. — The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will temporarily assume control of child welfare services at the Davidson County Department of Social Services ...

Attorney Laurie Tochiki joins producer/host Coralie Chun Matayoshi to discuss the Malama ‘Ohana Working Group’s recommendations to the Legislature to improve the child welfare system, and how we can ...