Western Michigan University is now offering a pathway for students interested in becoming child welfare professionals to learn more about child welfare-related work. Graduate students currently ...

The year 2020 has been marked by unimaginable tragedy brought to even greater depths by persistent racism. COVID-19 laid bare the health impact of living in a racist society. Recent videos depicting ...

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 ...

While Peoples’ story had received media attention before, the CBS segment represented a watershed moment, decades in the making. One of the country’s most-watched news shows, with nearly 5.5 million ...

The story has been updated to clarify that the total number of children and youth in the child welfare system. Many come under supervision of their county Department of Children and Family Services ...

Nevada cps cases shift as families navigate immigration detention ...

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