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After strategizing for months, DHS officials have a plan to address Arkansas's foster care crisis. Start with an undeniable fact: The state of Arkansas is taking children away from their families at an unprecedented rate. From January 2015 to November...

By Patrick T. McCarthy Twenty years ago, the Annie E. Casey Foundation launched an initiative aimed at tackling a persistent problem in the juvenile justice system: Too many young people who came into contact with the system were being confined unnecessarily...

Courtesy iFoster Youth Former foster youth connect with employers through the nonprofit iFoster's jobs program. A proposed federal bill encourages more employers to hire former foster youth by providing tax credits. WASHINGTON — A proposed federal...

In an alley in Little Village on Chicago's West Side, the faint sound of music from a Spanish-speaking radio station wafts in the air and garbage cans are sprayed with gang graffiti. They look like the tattoos on 17-year-old Elias Roman's arms. "This...

Seth Freed Wessler, Special to ProPublica This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. In August 2009, Mindi, a 25-year-old struggling new parent, experienced what doctors later concluded was a psychotic episode. She had been staying in a cousin...