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.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to resolve the issues in a case involving emergency abortion care for Idaho women and instead sent it back to lower courts for consideration.

The flexibility of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 allows the civil rights law to evolve as more disabilities, such as long COVID-19, are recognized.