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This thesis paper explores (1) how children in care in the UK are making use of mobile communication devices for contact with members of their familial and friendship networks; (2) to what extent devices like the smartphone, tablets and computers either improve or hinder communication; and (3) how contact using mobile communication devices and Internet is being managed by foster carers and social workers.

This report presents policy recommendations to improve the U.S. child welfare system, made by young adult interns who participated in the Foster Youth Internship Program® (FYI), "a highly esteemed congressional internship for young adults who have spent their formative years in U.S. foster care."

This Research-to-Impact brief is the seventh in a series of briefs that presents key findings from Voices of Youth Count. It elevates the voices of young people whose pathways into homelessness included time in foster care and points to opportunities for prevention and intervention.

This brief outlines how US child welfare systems can implement these eight strategies to address existing disproportionalities and disparities for LGBTQ+ children, youth, and families.

The objective of this document, developed by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), in collaboration with the Urban Institute and Community Works West, is to detail a set of practices that correctional administrators in the United States can implement to remove barriers that inhibit children from cultivating or maintaining relationships with their incarcerated parents during and immediately after incarceration.

This statement from Lumos outlines the organization's recommendations to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development regarding the institutionalization of children.

This staff report has been prepared at the request of Chairman Elijah E. Cummings to summarize the data obtained by the Committee on Oversight and Reform's subpoenas to compel the Trump Administration to produce documents relating to its policy of separating immigrant children from their families.

In this piece for Health Progress, the Journal of the Catholic Health Association of the United States, Shannon Senefeld, Philip Goldman and Anne Smith explain why many aid groups are working to end the use of orphanages in favor of family-based care and describe the work of the Changing the Way We Care initiative which seeks to "mobilize other likeminded organizations, raise awareness, promote new policies and encourage well-meaning donors to shift their support away from orphanages and toward families."

The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework on the key determinant of psychosocial adjustments in terms of behavior, social, emotion and mental health among abused children in residential care.

"The US immigration system is failing to accommodate children and families seeking legal asylum," according to this article from the Guardian.