Virginia is fortunate to have a vast community of advocates, child welfare workers, foster youth and families who keep foster care front of mind every day. Each year, 2,200 children enter foster care ...

After months of baseless claims about “extreme levels of fraud” within the Social Security Administration—even going so far ...

This is where social workers step in—the professionals many of us don't think about until we need them. They're the quiet ...

A foster parent is urging reforms in the local social services after the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services intervened to overhaul child welfare services.

Every Thursday, school social worker Cherisse Adams guides conversations that help students with essential life skills.

Commissioner Martin O’Malley violated the Hatch Act during an interview with a local news outlet in North Carolina last year, ...

In 2024, 40 children died in hot cars. Ages ranged from one month to 8 years, according to Kids and Care Safety.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin says he wants to increase Virginia's ability to place children in safe homes and support foster families ...

Investigation by officials revealed that not only did the teacher possess child pornography, but took photos posted to social media by area students and their parents, and shared them with pedophiles ...

Katie Jones was 11 the last time she saw her childhood home, where her father, an alcoholic, stayed between jail stints and ...

Donald Trump is again trying to change the tax code — this time, through what he and the GOP are calling “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill.” ...

At St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, medical social workers like Mary Gatlin provide the help parents need to make it ...