A child welfare worker is often the first person to respond to a child in need and among the last people to handle their case before they’re reunified with parents or placed in a loving, permanent ...

Before Missouri’s new child welfare leader even printed out business cards, she made stickers. A lot of them. “Centered on safety,” they read. And these stickers, Sara Smith says, remind her of an ...

Leaders at Idaho Department of Health and Welfare defend the way case workers handled the case of a newborn found dead in Nampa with his parents in December.Id ...

CHARLESTON – A federal audit of West Virginia’s child welfare system during former Gov. Jim Justice’s final year in office found that 91% of 100 reviewed reports did not follow requirements for child ...