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What is included in the NEW version of the U.S. nationally-adopted Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening and Support? Join the Center for the Study of Social Policy to learn about what it means to be a quality Family Strengthening and Support Program building the Protective Factors, and how the revised Standards support programs to advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

This study explores issues on post-adoption services in intercountry adoptions based on the perspectives of adoption professionals from Taiwan and Australia.

The aim of this article is to examine (1) the predictive validity of a risk assessment instrument that has been widely implemented in the Netherlands, and to examine (2) whether the actuarial risk estimation could be improved and simplified to widen the instrument’s applicability to different organizations serving different populations.

This paper analyzes the impact of adults’ interactive moves and strategies on children’s participation and agency at dinnertime in two Italian residential care facilities, one of the most widely used alternative care life-context for children and youth coming from vulnerable families.

According to this article from the Hindu, "a police team [in Bengaluru, India] uncovered an inter-State child trafficking racket. Two women, who are allegedly part of the racket, were arrested on Monday."

This second session of the World Bank's ECD webinar series will briefly share key findings from the new report, Better Jobs and Brighter Futures: Investing in Childcare to Build Human Capital, but will then describe plans to expand the World Bank’s work in early childhood and invite several World Bank staff to share information on the work they are doing in different countries.

The aim of this paper is to examine how a strengths-based approach facilitates working relationships between child welfare services and families.

This article explores the concept of care and the responsibility assumed by ‘states’ when taking children into care.

This paper explores how adoptive parents, with knowledge of exploitation in their own adoptions, are responding emotionally and pragmatically.

This radio segment from NPR explores the policy of separating migrant families at the U.S. border.