This consideration was made after the death of Genesis Mata and after a petition calling for an independent review of child welfare services has climbed over 4,000 signatures. BAKERSFIELD, Calif.

Across the globe, health-care workers have gone on strike to protest the stress placed on them by the global COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn, pushing already-strained services beyond their ...

Social workers, family needs, and foster care are among the essential services that have not been put on pause amid the novel-coronavirus pandemic. In Iowa, while some non-urgent matters can be done ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WITN) - The state Department of Health and Human Services has announced it will temporarily take leadership of Child Welfare Services at the Bertie County Department of Social Services ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — A new Child and Family Well-Being Department within the county’s Health and Human Services Agency aims to prevent child abuse and neglect before it can happen. “What if we did not ...

HONOLULU–A working group formed to help reform Hawaii’s troubled child welfare system has drafted dozens of recommendations for reform, and the group is about to launch a series of hearings to solicit ...