This longitudinal study is the first to evaluate the ways in which out-of-home (OOH) caregivers influence permanency outcomes for children in the foster care system while controlling for child-level and parent-level characteristics.

The present study sought to clarify the relation between maltreatment and mental health among youth in foster care by studying both the isolated dimensions of maltreatment and cumulative maltreatment, and to determine whether the effects of maltreatment on mental health operated indirectly through placement instability.

This study tested the effectiveness of Parent Management Training, Oregon (PMTO) model on child social–emotional well-being.

This article from the Chronicle of Social Change describes the work of ChildKind, an organization based in the state of Georgia in the US which seeks to prevent medical neglect and children entering the foster care system by supporting families to stay together and care for children with special needs. 

This article is a call to action for social workers who may now encounter Unaccompanied Minors (UAM) for the first time in their practice.

This study tests the associations of risk and protective factors on mental health outcome variables of youth in foster care with disabilities.

This paper describes specific challenges to family unity and child welfare among children in immigrant families resulting from immigration enforcement.

This study fills a gap within the literature by exploring differences in social connection to tribe and tribal enrollment among reunified and non-reunified American Indian adults. 

The present study explores child welfare workers’ perspectives on collaboration challenges specific to child welfare cases that also involve intimate partner violence (IPV).

This article explains how the US child welfare system intervenes in cases of child abuse and neglect, including how cases are reported, how Child Protective Services (CPS) assesses the risk, how CPS determines when in-home services are appropriate or if a child should be removed from the home, how ongoing cases are managed, and the options for permanency for children in the system.