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This brief highlights variation among states in child welfare agency spending from federal funding sources.

This article from Rewire.News connects the US policy of family separation at the US border with Mexico to its history of separating indigenous families, including the use of "Indian boarding schools" as a means of separating Native children from their families, communities, and culture, as well as the current overrepresentation of Native children in foster care in the US.

Le(a) consultant(e) national(e) sera engagé(e) pour assister le chef d'équipe dans la phase de conception de l'évaluation en lui apportant toute son expertise et dans la phase de collecte en lui facilitant l'accès et l'identification des personnes ressources au sein de l'administration et la société civile.

Le bureau de l’UNICEF au Maroc lance un appel à consultation internationale pour fournir une assistance technique pour la mise en œuvre de pilotes visant le renforcement de la qualité de la protection de remplacement au Maroc incluant le développement de modèles nationaux et le renforcement de capacités de travailleurs sociaux.

This commentary from the Special Issue on Adoption Breakdown of the journal of Research on Social Work Practice highlights the authors’ conceptual and empirical contributions for understanding the incidence and dynamics of varying types of adoption breakdowns and their impact on adopted youth and their families.

This video clip from an NBC News segment in the US discusses what is next for "the over 2,000 children still held by the Department of Health and Human Services," detained at the US border with Mexico.

By commissioning a progress evaluation, European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM) would like to assess the progress made towards achieving outcomes and impact of the Thematic Fund across the various interventions of its Thematic Fund, in the period 2016-2018.

This joint publication from Child Trends and the National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families calls attention to the critical need to support immigrant families in the US who have been negatively affected by the trauma of separation, and who will likely continue to experience considerable adversity in the future, even if reunited with their loved ones.

In a recent statement, Destination Unknown, a network of over 100 organisations worldwide, coordinated by Terre des Hommes, has expressed its concern regarding the family separations currently imposed at the US border with Mexico "and the traumatic and detrimental effect it is having on children."

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.