This Comment argues that the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act (CWA) creates an enforceable right to foster care maintenance payments under § 1983 by analyzing the CWA's text and structure and by drawing on the context of the Act's enactment and subsequent legislative history.

Lumos is seeking a Researcher who will be responsible for leading and carrying out a US research agenda.

This paper begins with a historic review of immigration policies in the United States aimed at supporting unaccompanied migrant children.

This study tested the hypotheses that inverse relationships would exist between connectedness in three social domains (i.e., caregiver, peers, and school) and suicidal ideation over time.

The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) is proud to announce the launch of the Youth Thrive™ Survey on October 30, 2018. This instrument is a valid web-based survey that measures the presence, strength, and growth of the Youth Thrive™ Protective and Promotive Factors as proxy indicators of well-being.

To illustrate design and implementation of the Strategies for Enhancing Early Developmental Success (SEEDS) Preschool Program, aimed at promoting school readiness in families connected to the child welfare system, the current paper uses parent- and teacher-reported data to summarize the progress of three participating families with diverse histories and presenting issues.

This study examined whether children with Child Protective Services (CPS) involvement who were in foster care had more advanced receptive vocabulary than children with CPS involvement who resided with their birth parents.

In the current study, the authors examined whether children with Child Protective Services (CPS) involvement who were in foster care had more advanced receptive vocabulary than children with CPS involvement who resided with their birth parents.

"One in five children being raised by extended family members [in the US] — grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins — live in an immigrant household, more than half a million children, a new report shows," says this article from the Huffington Post. 

This opinion piece from the New York Times presents alternatives to volunteering in, or donating to, orphanages.