In October, outgoing President Joe Biden issued a formal apology for the centuries that the U.S. government forced Native ...

A flurry of youth- and family-related legislation made it through Congress and to Biden's desk in the waning weeks of 2024 ...

The Imprint introduced readers to John Spence, a member of the Gros Ventre tribe, who leads Indigenous youth to experience ...

Some of the strongest Youth Voices Rising pieces published by The Imprint in 2023, all written by youth with lived experience ...

The Imprint explored the state of kinship care — the reliance on relatives or other close caregivers that is increasingly ...

A collection of ten of the strongest op-eds on child welfare and youth justice published by The Imprint in 2024.

In Texas, policy changes and state legislation has lessened the state’s reliance on foster care removal of children. Photo by Jenna Christina The number of youth in foster care had already declined in ...

In 2024, The Imprint reported on legislative, policy and advocacy efforts aimed at preventing the use of foster care in child welfare cases. The Imprint highlighted each of the policy recommendations ...

Two brothers during a child welfare court hearing in Indiana. Photo courtesy of Calamari Productions. Since 2019, states have been able to use federal child welfare funds to help pay for legal counsel ...

Near the end of 2023, The Imprint’s Michael Fitzgerald broke the story that the federal government had frozen a primary source of funding to the Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) national ...