Our Kids Archives - Resolve Philly

How Philly can look to New Jersey to fix its child welfare system

The problems bedeviling Philadelphia’s child welfare system — too many kids in foster care, worker vacancies, and lawsuits stemming from child injuries and deaths — have all steadily waned in […]

Inside Philly’s hidden foster care system, where parents ‘voluntarily’ give up their children

Philly removes neglected children from homes to keep them safe. But they often face worse abuse in foster care placements.

Philly still keeps the benefits of foster care youths despite a 2022 law

Investigative Reporter Steve Volk at Resolve's Our Kids Panel in Sept 2023

Q&A with Investigative Editor, Steve Volk

What is Our Kids? Our Kids is a community journalism project that covers the foster care system with a thoroughness that the media hasn’t previously displayed toward this subject, with […]