Commissioner Pete Gerken says about 30 people have applied for the task force to examine the county's children services ...

Applicants must meet a set of criteria in order to serve on the task force, which aims to restore the community's trust in ...

When I read, a few days back, that Kamala Harris is “ looking for a way back in ” to politics, I found myself pleasantly ...

"We wanted to create a GPS/tracking device for parents with young children that would provide real time alerts for both short ...

Sara Smith, the new director of Missouri’s Children’s Division, has worked inside the agency since 2006. She starts her day reading child fatality reports, something she learned while working for the ...

The new department, carved out from the State Department for Social Protection and Senior Citizen Affairs, will lead in ...

The government will not close all children’s homes in Kenya, but only those that fail to comply with established laws and ...

Days after the suicide death of a foster teen living at an Albuquerque group home for boys, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez announced an investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy — ...

This article discusses Child Protective Services (CPS) and evalutes their credibility as sole decision maker in child abuse ...

‘When I had my children taken into care I wasn’t coping and I needed help,’ she explains. ‘I’d had a major mental breakdown.

A discussion of the recent Second Department decision, ‘Matter of Sapphire W.’, regarding ACS’ authority over non-respondent ...

Hawthorne’s experience reflects a tragic twist on the way many families experience the child welfare system. Nationally, only ...