Julie Reynolds

The California Supreme Court reinforced requirements that child welfare agencies investigate whether children have Native American ancestry.

A class action suit filed on behalf of three teenagers accuses NYC officers of illegally using and disclosing minors’ sealed arrest records.

Alameda County DA Pamela Price offered young people rehabilitation, not criminalization. Opponents immediately organized to stop her.

Dolores Subia BigFoot, a researcher focused on child welfare in Indian Country, is set to retire — but her trauma-healing work continues.

At its core, The Acolyte is about the lasting harm imposed by a single unwarranted CPS investigation gone wrong.

Among child welfare scholars, advocates and national leaders, a strong resistance to discussing child maltreatment fatalities prevails.

A lawsuit claims Illinois has for nearly two decades failed to provide special education services to young people locked up in adult prisons.

A national project documents the systemic abuse endured by generations of Indigenous people under the government’s boarding school programs.

For a more preventive child welfare system, we must move away from the idea that it is solely the function of CPS to keep kids safe.

Nancy Marie Spears works nationally covering Indigenous children and families with a focus on the Indian Child Welfare Act. She is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.