With federal pandemic relief funding running out this month, state legislatures are considering a wide range of options to make child care more affordable and finding creative ways to fund those options.

In recent years, the federal government has played a more active role in early childhood care and education through pandemic-era relief funding and new regulations for the Child Care and Development Block Grant and Head Start programs. This...

The chairs of NCSL’s Children, Families and Human Services Committee recently met to discuss the health workforce, prevention of child maltreatment, behavioral health, maternal and child health, Medicaid and other timely issues.

The national nonprofit SchoolHouse Connection aims to overcome homelessness by drawing on partnerships with schools, service providers, families and youth.

Using a data-driven program, the Boston-based nonprofit Roca aims to help young people break the cycle of poverty, violence and incarceration.

Two advocacy groups, Schoolhouse Connection and Poverty Solutions, have created a new database with school-district-level numbers on school-age students experiencing homelessness.