Few systems are as critical to a community as child welfare. To an outsider, the child welfare system is also a complex labyrinth of programs that cover children’s safety, abuse and neglect, foster care and adoption as well as supporting and strengthening families. How children fare in that system will have lifelong repercussions across all parts of society.
Foster Care and Adoption
Atlanta Magazine
The Orange Duffel Bag Initiative features life coaching for at risk teens and young adults in the foster care system, suffering from homelessness or enduring poverty.
Pacific Standard
An investigation into U.S. State documents highlights just how shady the international adoption scene became before a July law set common-sense regulation in place.
The Toast
A woman reflects on race and adoption and growing up with parents of a different ethnicity.
The Denver Post’s Jennifer Brown and Christopher N. Osher are no strangers to Colorado’s child welfare system. In 2012, the two teamed up for “Failed to Death,” an investigative series on the preventable deaths of abused and neglected children. While working on that series, they were... Read more
Newsroom stylebooks and media law guides may offer guidance on when to use loaded terms like “accused,” “arrest” and “indict,” but tips on language for sex trafficking are less clear. Here are some terms that may be helpful:Child prostitute- Never use. Children under the age of 18 cannot... Read more
This article was originally published in the February/March 2013 issue of American Journalism Review. "In God's Name" has since won a 2013 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism.Before Alexandra Zayas started investigating abuse in unlicensed religious children's homes in Florida, she... Read more
The report aims to expose the seldom-addressed challenges that confront children with disabilities who are sexually abused.
Prenatal alcohol exposure is a leading cause for placing children in a child-care system (e.g., orphanage, foster care or child welfare system) and leaves this population at high risk for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
Over 400,000 immigrants could face deportation, threatening the family unit and forcing parents and children to be separated
