Four years after the heartbreaking death of 8-year-old Thomas Valva​, change is coming to the Suffolk County department ...

Chautauqua County is calling on local parents and caregivers to make their voices heard by joining the OCFS Parent Advisory Board to help shape New York’s child welfare policies. The Chautauqua County ...

The first Tuesday in November will culminate in one of the most polarizing elections in U S history while simultaneously ...

Agency leaders say they're getting more calls from hospitals and treatment centres after parents refuse to take their child ...

The elimination of Head Start, a government-funded early childhood development program that is on the chopping block in the controversial Project 2025 ...

The male of the group, dressed in black with a hoodie and red shoes, had on rubber gloves, a glass meth pipe and rubber ...

Millions of Americans who are eligible for welfare programs still don’t receive all the benefits they are entitled to.

A proposed $47.8 billion settlement agreement for a 10-year reform of First Nations child and family services in the country was shot down last week, after 267 chiefs and proxies voted against it ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s governor warns the state’s child welfare system is “coming to a breaking point.” His comments came in response to the resignation announcement of the ...

Atlantic City's mayor is facing a new criminal charge after he allegedly told his teenage daughter to lie about a previous ...

Roshanne Marks, 33, of Bohemia, dragged two 3-year-olds by their arms and hit a third on the back of the head at the Way to Grow day care center in East Patchogue, authorities said.

The candidates have stark differences in their social welfare policies that ... Candidate Trump’s policy on family leave — to take care of a child, or sick relative or personal medical issue ...