The Imprint Weekly

Headlines: Trump Administration News, Foster Care and Child Fatalities, and More

The Imprint Episode 227

In our first podcast of 2026, we discuss new data on the administration’s goal of A Home for Every Child, a new leader for the U.S. Children’s Bureau, Trump’s freezing of safety net funds in five states, and more. 

Reading Room

Why We Are Putting the PIP on a PIP 

https://imprintnews.org/opinion/why-we-are-putting-the-pip-on-a-pip/269784

How States Stack Up on Trump’s “A Home for Every Child” Agenda

https://bit.ly/4qmHcLo

Trump Administration Issues Deadline Demands Before Releasing Children’s Aid 

https://bit.ly/4sDYV2u

Alex Adams Seeks Names in Hasty Push For Personal Data of Minnesota Social Service and Foster Care Recipients

https://bit.ly/4jIUgbC

Trump Administration Cancels Several DEI-Related Child Welfare Grants

https://bit.ly/3Nt2SH3

Feds Asks 39 States To Stop Taking Foster Kids’ Benefits

https://bit.ly/4qjraC5

President Trump Has Made His Pick for the Federal Children’s Bureau

https://bit.ly/4sDYFjO

Foster Care and Child Maltreatment Mortality Rates in the US

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2843235

SOHO Forum: Should CPS intervene more?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0462gYjkbc

The Other Trump Child Welfare Doctrine Issued This Month

https://imprintnews.org/subscriber-content/the-other-trump-child-welfare-doctrine-issued-this-month/268999

Candice Broce Faces Lawmakers About Georgia’s Child Welfare Budget Crisis

https://bit.ly/4jIs7kW

New York Governor Signs Law to End Anonymous Reporting of Child Maltreatment

https://imprintnews.org/child-welfare-2/new-york-governor-signs-law-to-end-anonymous-reporting-of-child-maltreatment/269804

The Number of Children in Los Angeles County Foster Care Has Plunged. The Imprint Set Out To Discover Why

https://bit.ly/456MbqZ

How An Indigenous Mom’s Adoption Journey Inspired Her Nonprofit

https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/three-precious-miracles-arizona-nonprofit/269711

Crisis Confidential: Things We Learned So You Don’t Have To

https://imprintnews.org/opinion/crisis-confidentialthings-learned/269818