30 minutes
David Hansell, Commissioner of ACS, discusses the ACS new reform-focused agenda, including training caseworkers to recognize "implicit bias," which might lead them unconsciously to treat some families different than others. He'll also discuss what has happened with reporting issues of neglect and/or abuse and the responses in the aftermath of the death of 6-year-old Zymere Perkins in 2016.

45 minutes
Radio Lab presents the story of a three-year-old girl in the Supreme Court- Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl. This legal battle has entangled a biological father, a heart-broken couple, and the tragic history of Native American children taken from their families.

15 minutes
All Things Considered shares the story of 21-year-old Noel Anaya, who on his final day as a foster youth, reads a statement in Santa Clara County court explaining how he feels the foster care system failed him and his siblings.

45 minutes
Talk of the Nation discusses that for as many as 20,000 teenagers annually who "age out" of foster care, there is little help in meeting the challenges of paying their own rent, affording health care and covering their living expenses.

30 minutes
The Foster Movement Podcast interviews former foster youth, Jessica, who persisted through college as a single mom, became a caseworker for the state and how she impacts the lives of other aging out youth so that they have the connection to mentors that she never had.

60 minutes
This American Life brings to us the story of a former foster care youth who was not believed when she reported a sexual assault. A story about doubt: how it germinated, spread, and eventually took hold of an entire community, with terrible consequences.

30 minutes
Depending on your zip code, race, or just bad luck, those mistakes can have a lasting impact. Mass incarceration starts young. In Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice, hear from kids about the moment they collided with law and order, and how it changed them forever.

30 minutes
In On the Media’s fifth and final installment of the series, "Busted: America's Poverty Myths," we learn the tools to spot shoddy reporting and the knowledge to identify coverage with insight.

30 minutes
On The Brian Lehrer Show, lawyers and judges share how they must often decide whether the risks to a child at home outweigh the risks of separating a family.

15 minutes
In this National CASA Podcast, hear former foster youth Amanda Metivier and Alaska State Director Marion Hallum discuss Facing Foster Care in Alaska, a foster youth advocacy program.

30 minutes
National CASA presents Jessica Hildebrand, who shares her experience of being in foster care and emancipating out of the system.

15 minutes
In part one of a National CASA two-part series, hear Michael describe his experiences with the foster care system and Rhode Island CASA and share how he was able to overcome the odds.

1 Hour
INCLUDEnyc has a monthly series of live-streamed, interactive online presentations on a wide variety of disability topics. There are nearly 30 presentations to choose from.

1.5 Hours
Reporter Joaquin Sapien joins The Leonard Lopate Show to discuss his article, Dysfunction Disorder, about the powerful family court system in New York City.

2.75 Hours
This forum explores how preventive services in collaboration with child protection has transformed the child welfare system. Panelists review the status of current practice, discuss the infusion of evidence-based interventions, and consider ways to elevate the voice of families in shaping future services.

30 Minutes
In the third installment of the series, "Busted: America's Poverty Myths," we hear a discussion of one of our country's most fundamental notions: that America is a land of equal opportunity and upward mobility for all. And we ask why, in spite of a wealth of evidence to the contrary, does this idea persist?

30 Minutes
The Impact is a podcast about how different policies affect the lives of those living in the USA. This episode discusses how support groups and networking for pregnant women can help reduce infant mortality and illness in high risk populations.

30 Minutes
For two and a half years, Emily Bazelon has been following people through a special court in New York designed to be a speedy machine for the harsh punishment of illegal gun possession. Along the way, a strange thing happened—the politics outside the courtroom started to change when a new generation of activists and insiders began challenging the old system the gun court was part of. \Season 1 of Slate Presents brought you the story of Ruby Ridge, and Season 2 brings you a fight to transform one big-city justice system.

15 Minutes
In this National CASA Podcast, hear a conversation between a youth who was recently emancipated from foster care and a youth currently in state care.

1.75 Hours
The Leonard Lopate Show introduces Ashley Rhodes-Courter, who spent much of her childhood bouncing among fourteen different foster homes. She explains how the system failed her, and what she’s doing now to help out today’s foster kids and parents.

15 Minutes
On The New Yorker Radio Hour, Jennifer Gonnerman shares excerpts from the interviews she recorded with Kalief Browder, in which he described the psychological toll of spending years in solitary confinement as a teenager.

10 Minutes
In this eye-opening talk about the impact of race and neighborhood on foster-care decisions, social worker Jessica Pryce shares a promising solution to help child welfare agencies make bias-free assessments about when to remove children from their families.

30 Minutes
On The Leonard Lopate Show, Cris Beam talks about her experience as a foster mother, and describes what it’s like for children growing up in the foster care system.

30 Minutes
In the first episode of On the Media’s 5-part series, “Busted: America’s Poverty Myths,” we examine how the story of poverty gets told and whether media attention makes a difference.

30 Minutes
The Leonard Lopate Show hosts journalists Stephanie Clifford and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, who investigated how children have been placed in foster care by the Administration for Children’s Services in NYC's poorer neighborhoods for reasons that wouldn’t lead to the same outcome in more affluent communities.

15 Minutes
Here and Now discusses how, for the first time, federal reimbursement will be available to states that provide foster care services. This follows President Trump’s signing into law the Family First Prevention Services Act, aimed at keeping children with their families and not in foster care.

60 Minutes
On this episode of This American Life, a teenager reports what it is like to be inside an abusive relationship with an older man.

30 Minutes
In the fourth installment of the series, "Busted: America's Poverty Myths," we examine the strengths and shortcomings of our nation's safety net. Government assistance does help lift millions out of poverty each year, but those in the most dire circumstances often slip through the cracks.

45 Minutes
In the second installment of “Busted: America’s Poverty Myths,” we trace the history of welfare in America and how many in poverty fall through the cracks.

15 Minutes
On this episode of NPR’s series, “Take a Number,” we hear about the many reasons that foster youth struggle in school. Treehouse, a nonprofit organization that aims to help youth in foster care, sheds light on the educational struggles of foster youth and how they work overcome it.