FMC, Fostering Families Today and The Imprint have won numerous awards over the years.
2026
Los Angeles Press Club’s Southern California Journalism Awards Hard News Feature
Despite Federal Law and Due Process Rights, Most Children Taken Into Foster Care on an ‘Emergency’ Basis Before Parents Get a Hearing
Sara Tiano
Los Angeles Press Club’s Southern California Journalism Awards Solutions Journalism, 3rd Place
Medicated in Foster Care: Who’s Looking Out?
Michael Fitzgerald, Jeremy Loudenback and Susanti Sarkar
New York Press Club’s Nellie Bly Cub Reporter Award
Susanti Sarkar
Association of Health Care Journalists Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism Health Policy, Second Place
Medicated in Foster Care: Who’s Looking Out?
Michael Fitzgerald, Jeremy Loudenback and Susanti Sarkar
Solutions Journalism Network Awards Best News Article, Third Place
How Some New York Counties Make Sure Children in Foster Care Stay With Family
Steven Yoder
Journalist of the Year: The Imprint
Public Children Services Association of Ohio
INN Insight Award for Explanatory Journalism
Medicated in Foster Care: Who’s Looking Out?
By Imprint staff writers Michael Fitzgerald, Jeremy Loudenback and Susanti Sarkar
American Society of Journalists and Authors Excellence in Reporting
New York Set Out to Keep Half of All Foster Youth With Family. Some Counties Still Fall Far Short of That Urgent Goal
By Imprint contributing writer Steven Yoder
USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Data Fellowship
Sara Tiano, Imprint senior national child welfare reporter
Price Child Health and Welfare Journalism Honorable Mention
Penalized for Their Prescriptions: Parents Using Legal Addiction Medications Face Ongoing Discrimination in the Child Welfare System
When Prescribed Medications End in a Call to CPS: One Upstate New York Mom is Fighting Back
Price Child Health and Welfare Journalism First Place Award
Medicated in Foster Care: Who’s Looking Out?
By Michael Fitzgerald, Jeremy Loudenback and Susanti Sarkar
Casey Excellence for Children Resource Parent Award
Kim Hansel, former editor of Fostering Families Today, current director of sustainability for Fostering Media Connections
Indigenous Journalist Association Excellence in Beat Reporting 1st place
An Indigenous Adoptee Reclaims Her Culture
Protecting Children and Healing Families, One Native Auntie at a Time ‘
Indian Child Welfare Act Stands, Native Families Empowered
By Indigenous children and families reporter Nancy Marie Spears
Indigenous Journalist Association Best Feature Story 2nd place
Protecting Children and Healing Families, One Native Auntie at a Time
By Nancy Marie Spears
Indigenous Journalist Association Best Two-Spirit Coverage 3rd Place
Born of History (3-part series exploring a young person’s journey through a tribal foster care system and into a life of advocacy.)
By Nancy Marie Spears
INN Breaking Barriers Award 1st Place
Co-published with Voices of Monterey Bay, ELDERS: Uncle John
By Julie Reynolds, Imprint associate editor and co-founder of Voices of Monterey Bay, Nancy Marie Spears and journalist Mara J. Reynolds
INN Insight Award for Explanatory Journalism Finalist
Fighting for Kin, (2-part series on an aunt’s struggle to adopt her nephews from foster care.)
By Sara Tiano
INN Insight Award for Explanatory Journalism Finalist
Co-published with Voices of Monterey Bay, ROAD ATLAS: Women Healing Trauma in the Nomad West
By Julie Reynolds
The Society of Professional Journalists Northern California, Features Journalism 1st Place
Co-published with Voices of Monterey Bay, ROAD ATLAS: Women Healing Trauma in the Nomad West
By Julie Reynolds
Price Child Health and Welfare Journalism Award 1st Place
High Stakes, Silent Systems: Foster Care’s Missing Policies For Sexual and Reproductive Health
By Michael Fitzgerald
Price Child Health and Welfare Journalism Award Honorable Mention
By Sara Tiano
Price Child Health and Welfare Journalism Award Honorable Mention
Born of History
By Nancy Marie Spears
2023
Los Angeles Press Club’s Southern California Journalism Awards Illustration 2nd place
The Foster Care System Turns to Big Data: Promising or Profiling?
By Christine Ongjoco, visual journalist for The Imprint
INN Insight Award for Explanatory Journalism
The Darkest Part of the Tunnel: Juvenile Justice Reimagined
By Nell Bernstein, contributing writer for The Imprint
ONA Online Journalism Award for Topical Reporting: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and IdentityFinalist
High Stakes, Silent Systems: Foster Care’s Missing Policies For Sexual and Reproductive Health
By Michael Fitzgerald
INN Breaking Barriers Award
Co-published with Voices of Monterey Bay, AFTER LIFE: The untold story of how a group of
incarcerated men reshaped rehabilitation in California By Julie Reynolds, Gilbert Bao and Mara J. Reynolds
Media for a Just Society Awards, Finalist, podcast/radio
Co-published with Voices of Monterey Bay, AFTER LIFE, By Julie Reynolds, Gilbert Bao and Mara J. Reynolds
Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists Young Journalist of the Year Honorable Mention
Farrah Mina, Imprint Minnesota child welfare reporter