The academic in me is never going to say causality,” said Harvard's Jeremy Faust. “But the person with a functioning brain is ...

A reporter seeks answers on the use of residential treatment programs nationwide — and the rationale for sending kids away ...

Asian Americans are disproportionately affected by hepatitis B, especially by chronic infections. Years of community work ...

The top stair was Nicole Sheaff’s bed for months. She slept with one eye open, waiting for her daughter Arlen to follow the voices in her head that told her to run. To get out, Arlen would tiptoe down ...

When Heather Preston adopted her two sons, finding them care became her full-time job. After the siblings, whom Preston adopted from foster care, moved from a small southern Iowa town into her Des ...

There is a deep-seated distrust of the child welfare system within the Black community, stemming from a history of racial bias and systemic inequities. The fear of children being “snatched up” by “the ...

I am working in health policy and communications at Health Access, the nonprofit advocacy coalition in Sacramento that reports on everything from legislative and state budget action to political ...