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.

This study presents longitudinal analyses of the case flow of youth aged 3–17 in Washington State's foster care system, tracking rates of screening, scoring above or below clinical criteria cutoff scores, and service receipt.

Nearly 1,500 unaccompanied migrant children in the US are unaccounted for by the federal agency that is responsible for their care, according to this article from the Morning Call.

The authors of this paper argue that young migrants without legal documentation are urgently in need of our attention as child and youth care workers and scholars.

The Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) in Los Angeles County, California is launching a program "to use high-tech mapping to improve court-ordered visitations for the 18,000 children placed in the county’s foster care system," according to this article from the Chronicle for Social Change.

In this project, researchers provided foster parents with a trauma-informed, evidence-based parenting program (Incredible Years; IY) and assessed its impact on child behavior, foster parent stress and attitudes, and perceived effect on parenting.

The authors of this paper conducted a systematic review with the aim of developing a better understanding of the psychosocial factors associated with the behavioral health of children in foster and kinship care.

The researchers in this study conducted a systematic review with the aim of developing a better understanding of the psychosocial factors associated with the behavioral health of children in foster and kinship care.

The current study examined how to best facilitate a healthier professional relationship between case managers and foster families with the goal of identifying concrete ways to improve the relationship and drive foster parent retention.