Youth Today reporter James Swift builds on his own experience growing up in poverty and opens it into a compelling and overdue look at the nation's poor, ...
The Birth Through Eight State Policy Framework is a tool, or roadmap, that anyone can use to guide policy in ways that will improve the health, learning, and economic ...
When a new "vote for normalcy" bill in Florida becomes law, foster parents will be able to make decisions without months of requests and approval from other ...
Roughly half of all former foster youth in their early 20s are unemployed at any given time, a key reason why foster youth are more likely to slide into homelessness, ...
Certificate Programs at Georgetown University are periods of intensive study designed for organization and system leaders working with youth known to, or at risk of ...
Movies are an escape, but they can also be a mirror. They can help us see ourselves and how others see us. Over the years, Represent writers-- youth and ...
Informal kinship placements, where a parent voluntarily places a child with a family member, were the most common out-of-home placement for children with a ...
A record number of deportations means record numbers of American children being left without a parent. An unknown number of those kids are being put up for adoption ...
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is teaming up with four national foundations to combat family homelessness. Families comprise the ...
This guide discusses ways to help foster children and youth who aged out of foster care access critical public benefits including the Supplemental Nutrition ...
A bold NCYL initiative to improve the educational prospects of foster youth in one Indiana county has done so well that it's been expanded to cover the entire ...
Five months ago, California embarked on historic expansion of its foster care system. The Fostering Connections to Success Act, known as AB 12, took the enlightened ...
So-called “place-based strategies” have been gaining attention for their cross-cutting approaches to delivering housing, education and health care in a ...
In this policy report, the Annie E. Casey Foundation Foundation explores the increased number of children living with extended family and close friends, a longtime ...
Kinship Navigator programs eligible for this grant assist kinship caregivers, through information and referral systems and other means, to learn about, find, ...
