The US state of Washington’s foster care system has been sending many young people in need of residential care and treatment to the Clarinda Academy, an institution in Iowa. This is a report by Disability Rights Washington (DRW) to expose the conditions and treatment experienced by Washington foster youth at this institution.

The Together for Families Conference is a unique new opportunity to gather various stakeholders from across the U.S. in the Family Support and Strengthening Field.

This project attempts to put numbers on the foster care capacity in each state in the US.

Co-hosted by the National Family Support Network, the Center for the Study of Social Policy and the Greater Cleveland Family Strengthening Network, this conference will weave together content related to Strengthening Families, the field of Family Support and the Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening and Support.

This study reviews relevant empirical literature on the impact of forced family separations in the US on child and youth wellbeing from 2000 to the present.

The purpose of this systematic review is to summarize the effects of interagency and cross-system collaboration aimed to improve child welfare-involved children and family outcomes related to safety, permanency, and well-being.

This exploratory focus group study examines foster parent perspectives on what facilitates and impedes their engagement in child welfare court processes.

Learn about the history of Family Support and Strengthening field in the United States, the work of Family Support Programs, Family Support and Strengthening Networks,and the National Family Support Network, and an overview of the nationally-adopted Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support by joining this webinar on 10 October.

"An Associated Press investigation drawing on hundreds of court documents, immigration records and interviews in the U.S. and Central America has identified holes in the system that allow state court judges to grant custody of migrant children to American families — without notifying their parents," says this article from the Associate Press.

This article describes the history and current status of the US Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), a bill designed to protect indigenous children in the US from being removed unnecessarily from their families of origin.