High levels of psychotropic medication use and polypharmacy are common for emotionally and behaviorally troubled youth entering residential care.

The UN General Assembly will host a high-level summit to address large movements of refugees and migrants, with the aim of bringing countries together behind a more humane and coordinated approach.

This study used a mixed-methods multiphase, iterative process to illuminate the congruencies and incongruencies between the young adults' accounts of their foster care experiences and the legalistic, system-focused view of their experiences. 

This study used a mixed-methods multiphase, iterative process to illuminate the congruencies and incongruencies between the young adults' accounts of their foster care experiences and the legalistic, system-focused view of their experiences. This study highlights the limitations of administrative data as the primary source for evaluating systems, assessing child well-being, and for understanding child welfare outcomes.

This paper discusses the study of foster parent perspectives on decision-making relevant to the use of psychotropics with children in foster care.  

This news article from IllinoisHomepage.net highlights the recent report released by the Illinois State Auditor, which reports that children who are supposed to be in foster care are spending too much time in psychiatric and other detention facilities.  The report can be downloaded here from the BCN Site.

This is a Proposed Rule document from the U.S. Department of State regarding international adoptions.  The Department of State (the Department) proposes to amend requirements for accreditation of agencies and approval of persons who provide adoption services in intercountry adoption cases.

This study evaluates one mid-Atlantic state’s implementation of a FGDM called family involvement meetings (FIMs) to improve family strengths and their active engagement in the service planning process.

In this opinion article from Huffington Post, Carol Emig states that there are millions of refugee children around the world who need protection.  She cites Moving Beyond Trauma: Child Migrants and Refugees in the U.S., which states that more than a 127,000 children will enter into the U.S. by the end of 2016. 

This opinion piece from the Washington Post discusses how working to keep children with their families is a better option