Maestral International is seeking a full-time Technical Director for the Changing the Way We Care initiative. 

This descriptive study involved caregivers and their adopted children, under the age of 7 years old, referred by pediatricians to an outpatient clinic, which specializes in early mental health. The prevalence of toxic stress, measured as symptoms of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) and Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder (DSED), was explored using clinical data collected during initial assessment.

This article from the Thomson Reuters Foundation tells the story of Amy Andrews and other young people in foster care who have been trafficked, or made vulnerable to trafficking.

The purpose of this scholarly project was to create a guide for trauma-informed interventions for occupational therapists specifically to use with foster care children.

This manual, supported by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI) Grant, offers guidance on the implementation of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) with children in foster care and their families.

This paper evaluates a five-module curriculum for recently immigrated youth called FUERTE (Family Reunification and Resiliency Training).

This synthesis from the U.S. Children's Bureau summarizes the work and findings of a cluster of demonstration projects aimed at developing replicable models of systemic change and evidence-based models for placing children and youth with families who could provide permanent family connections.

This research study proposes to explore aggregate of factors responsible for the academic struggles of foster care youth.

The primary aim of the current study was to examine the longitudinal effects of ongoing physical abuse on the co-development of externalizing behavior problems and posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms among child welfare-involved adolescents.

This paper uses person-centered latent class analysis (LCA) methods to examine the relationship between different profiles of ACE exposures and divergent health trajectories amongst this high-risk population.