3+ hour, 7+ min ago  (1253+ words) In 1985, a girl fleeing violence in El Salvador ended up at a makeshift detention facility in Pasadena, California. Jenny Lisette Flores, then 15, was one of dozens of people of all ages fleeing civil war and political unrest in Central America…...

3+ hour, 7+ min ago  (1253+ words) In 1985, a girl fleeing violence in El Salvador ended up at a makeshift detention facility in Pasadena, California. Jenny Lisette Flores, then 15, was one of dozens of people of all ages fleeing civil war and political unrest in Central America…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (610+ words) A loss of cultural ties and disrupted kinship networks cause adverse outcomes that follow Indigenous foster youth and adoptees into adulthood, according to newly published research. The findings, revealed last month in the Child Abuse & Neglect Journal, suggest that Native…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (376+ words) One day, noticing he didn't have fall clothes, I gave him a hoodie with our emblem on it and then we took him to choose his own wardrobe for the season." He was awed, and shared why: a dozen times…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1048+ words) Nationwide, thousands of children sit in Office of Refugee Resettlement facilities, unable to reunite with parents or relatives because of new Trump administration policies limiting who can sponsor them. "The Children Are Being Used as Bait" Thousands of kids are…...

10+ mon, 4+ week ago  (157+ words) An Imprint review of all 50 states" policies reveals spotty enforcement of rules to monitor psychotropic prescriptions for foster youth. Medicated in Foster Care: Who"s Looking Out? An Imprint review of all 50 states" policies and class-action lawsuits across the country…...

11+ mon, 2+ hour ago  (349+ words) President Trump has nominated Alex Adams to lead the agency within the Department of Health and Human Services that oversees child welfare ... Alex Adams Nominated to Lead Administration for Children and Families President Donald Trump has nominated Idaho Department of…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago  (319+ words) As a child and youth that experienced necessary emergency removal followed by foster care, kinship care and group home placements, I also experienced a profound lack of positive human connections. Becoming a parent myself revealed many symptoms of the trauma…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago  (226+ words) After inauguration, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) basically went dark on externally communicating with the public until it had a Senate-confirmed leader. Now that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is in place, it appears that some more permanent…...