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 ...

Violence prevention programs, particularly community-based interventions, can significantly reduce homicides and shootings in ...

Last year, I spoke with an Iowa mother who found her then-6-year-old son attempting to take his own life during a monthslong ...

Asian Americans, who make up 7% of the U.S. population, account for more than half of all chronic hepatitis B cases. Roughly ...

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

Nearly two dozen children in the tiny village of Sleetmute, Alaska, arrive for school each morning to a small brown building that is on the verge of collapse. Every year for the past 19 years, the ...

Rundown trailers streaked with graffiti that sit along a windy gravel road just outside Ontario in eastern Oregon are part of an encampment that’s rife with guns and drugs and people on edge.

A cash-assistance program for expectant moms and babies, which first began in Flint more than a year ago, is growing its reach to hundreds more families across Michigan. Rx Kids, led by Flint ...

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 ...