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 "Mapping Disparities for ... resources that may mitigate the risk or safety concern." The study participants also described how current child welfare eligibility standards are based on a ...

There is urgency in addressing this because there is only a ‘narrow window of opportunity’ in a child ... with MAP in their initiatives, notably Department of Social Welfare and Development ...

When things get so bad that social workers think about taking children from their homes, their decisions are often made in ...

Advocates are cautiously optimistic about a new workgroup that will look at ways to increase licensed placement settings for foster youth in Maryland.

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 ...

Our longstanding culture of deflection and double-speak has to end. April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, an opportunity for us all to learn how we can prevent child abuse by being ...

“To work in child welfare is more than a job. It’s a calling,” Director Shannon Tucker told those who gathered at the Blair County Courthouse for the annual recognition ceremony held inside ...

and short films aimed at enhancing safety and preventing crimes against women and children. Social welfare minister P Geetha Jeevan said experts would conduct conferences for govt and NGO ...

Children with autism are at an increased risk of "wandering" towards bodies of water, traffic and other hazards, according to ...

Blair County Sheriff’s Deputies Julia Zucofski and Caymen Hughes raise the Child Abuse Prevention Month flag during a ceremony Thursday at the Blair County Courthouse. Mirror photo by Patrick ...