This webinar will explore the US the nationally-adopted Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support. 

The purpose of this study is to explore child welfare workers' perspectives on ethnic matching in child welfare service delivery.

The current study examined the use of socio-emotional well-being measures among a sample of 57 children and youth living in a congregate care type setting such as a group home or shelter.

The purpose of this study is to explore child welfare workers' perspectives on ethnic matching in child welfare service delivery.

The authors of this article examined social and economic resources in the environments of children involved with child protective services and their associations with children's cognitive performance.

This chapter from the Handbook of Parenting and Child Development Across the Lifespan explores five domains of research connecting social support and parenting: (1) intergenerational transmission of parenting; (2) community and neighborhood; (3) marriage quality; (4) grandmothers; and (5) offline and online friends.

In this study, the authors assessed differences in the risk of early motherhood among low-income, maltreated, and foster youth and investigated whether differences likely reflect selection factors versus effects of involvement with Child Protective Services (CPS) or foster care.

Nurturing Strangers focuses on loving nonviolent re-parenting of children in foster care. This book is a jargon-free mix of narrative and real-life case studies, together with the theory and practice of nonviolence.

This article from the Washington Post describes how families in the US are often separated permanently due to the incarceration of a parent.

Child Trends conducted this 10th national survey of U.S. child welfare agency expenditures to promote an understanding of the challenges and opportunities agencies face in serving vulnerable children. This report is part of an array of resources compiled from the survey’s findings.