This report presents policy and practice recommendations for the care and protection of unaccompanied migrant children in the United States, based on the wisdom and learning shared by participants in three Roundtable meetings convened by Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS).

The Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) has released a comprehensive set of policy recommendations for the care and protection of unaccompanied children in the United States.

This report from Disability Rights International (DRI) outlines the findings from a two-year investigation into the treatment of children and adults with mental disabilities in Mexico City, particularly those in the care of state-funded and private residential facilities.

Family for Every Child is recruiting a Regional Coordinator for a Learning Network on Recovery and Reintegration from Child Sexual Exploitation in Latin America and the Caribbean.

From June 8-12, 2015, Buckner Guatemala, with support from the Displaced Children and Orphans Fund (DCOF) and the Guatemalan Court System, provided a series of two-day training sessions to multi-disciplinary teams from the court system. The two sessions of the two-day training included more than 80 professionals, and provided an opportunity to highlight the important role of multi-disciplinary teams (i.e., social workers, psychologists and pedagogues) within the Guatemalan child protection system in general and the court system specifically.

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

The organizations profiled in these case studies have pioneered effective transitions from residential to family-based care. 

This report examines the policy challenge in the United States of balancing protection and immigration enforcement in the recent unaccompanied child migration “crisis” in the US.

This one-page presentation outlines the research questions, data, methods, results, literature review, discussion and implications of a study that looked at the effects of a child’s relationship to head of household, age, and orphan status on the severity of discipline they receive in Ghana, Iraq, Costa Rica, Vietnam,and Ukraine.