In communities across the country, individuals and families encounter challenges and hardships on a number of fronts, from healthcare issues, to counseling, to domestic and social service needs. While ...

Caseworker fixed his tie the day he made plea for a family in a Florida church. — -- Davion Navar Henry Only is finally set to get the happy ending more than 100,000 children in U.S. foster care ...

From the moment she landed in foster care at the age of four, this girl was shuffled between homes that broke more than they fixed. When she finally asked why nobody in her family had ever stepped up, ...

March was Women's History Month, and we love having an extra reason to celebrate some of the amazing women who make the work we do here in Sacramento (and across the world) possible! One of those ...

The cover of "Broken" and author Jessica Pryce. (Courtesy of Harper Collins and Aaron Kudja) Jessica Pryce is a former child protective services caseworker and now a faculty member of Florida State ...

After a school employee reported Amanda Hendrickson for kicking her 5-year-old daughter “very hard” in the back, a state caseworker interviewed three people: Hendrickson and the child, Heaven Woods, ...

READING — The agency tasked with helping keep children safe from abuse and neglect in Berks County doesn’t have enough caseworkers, a shortage it says is fueling staff turnover and forcing the ...

MONTICELLO — The Monticello woman arrested for allegedly leaving 2-year-old foster child Antonio Suarez-Ware alone inside a hot car last month, leading to his death, was named in a previous report of ...

A caseworker determined children should be removed from a residence south of Dallas on Friday, just before three of them were found dead and two injured, officials said Saturday. Shamaiya Deyonshana ...

A Kingston woman is jailed on terroristic threat charges after police say she threatened to kill a Luzerne County Children, Youth & Families caseworker who was attempting to remove two children from ...