Crystal Harris, a 17-year-old University High School graduate with a 5.05 GPA, is redefining what it means to come from foster care. Earlier this summer, Harris was honored alongside 127…

Foster youth convened at the Walt Disney Concert Hall for a scholarship extravaganza and celebration of their hard work overcoming challenges to pursue college dreams.

Originally aired on KABC on Monday, July 6, 2026.

Parents battling drug addiction take part in a support program offered by the court system, the Department of Children and Family Services, and local treatment centers. Graduation marks a major…

A class-action lawsuit alleging Los Angeles County fails to provide safe and stable housing to transition-age foster youth with mental health disabilities will move forward, federal judges ruled this week….

Last fall, the New York Times magazine published a story by Emily Baumgaertner Nunn, a national health reporter, about the commercial sexual exploitation of children on a fifty-block stretch of Figueroa…

Originally aired on CBS News Los Angeles on Tuesday, May 5, 2026.

Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services Director Brandon Nichols is leaving his post after four years, the Imprint has learned. He has told the county’s board of…

More than two dozen young men in foster care celebrated their graduation from a nine-week leadership and life-skills program called “A Greater Me” to build stable, self-sufficient futures.

El Departamento de Niños y Familias, junto con el Departamento del Alguacil, se unieron para brindar regalos y alegría a jóvenes del sistema de crianza del Condado de Los Ángeles.