Safety, or the absence of maltreatment, is the primary mandate of the child protection services (CPS) system, both for children living at home and those living away from home. Yet, few research studies have examined maltreatment in out-of-home care due to the low incidence rate and data limitations. This study used statewide administrative data to estimate the association between placement type and experiencing a maltreatment investigation or substantiation in out-of-home care.

This paper reports on the development and piloting of a manualized treatment foster care program in the US designed to step down older youth with high psychiatric needs from residential programs to treatment foster care homes.

This study examined psychopathology at age 12 years in a cohort of Romanian children who had been abandoned at birth and placed into institutional care, then assigned either to be placed in foster care or to care as usual.

To facilitate well-informed decisions, the researchers collected and disseminated evidence from systematic reviews (SR) to local child welfare stakeholders in Norway through plain language summaries. This article describes that process.

This study replicated and extended previous research which identified the small proportion of highly productive foster parents who provide a disproportionate amount of care in the United States. This study used a nationally representative sample of foster families (N = 876) with a focus on willingness to foster, and actually fostering, children with special needs.

This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 

This qualitative study focused on disadvantaged women in the US child welfare system who have lost their parental rights.

This study examines whether participation in Extended Foster Care (EFC) or the Aftercare Program in San Bernardino County, California, USA increases perceptions of independence in former and current foster dependents ages eighteen and older.

This article reviews current efforts to train child welfare workers in the US in trauma informed practices and argues that trauma informed care adaptation and training must transcend case workers and supervisors in order for true systemic change to occur.

This study was designed to “identify factors that contribute to the educational success of children in care in Manitoba” and to “make recommendations regarding what schools, school divisions, and the provincial Department of Education and Advanced Learning could do to contribute further to the educational success of children in care.”