The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit in US district court against federal immigration agencies that have separated a Congolese woman, given the pseudonym "Ms L" in court documents, and her daughter, according to this article from the Guardian.

According to this article, and radio segment, from NPR, there are about 1,200 children on the Navajo indigenous reservation in the US who cycle in and out of foster care each year, but only 26 registered foster care homes.

This study examined the extent to which (a) maltreatment type and (b) foster care placement were associated with the educational attainment of 337 maltreated adolescents.

The authors of this study sought to better understand the potential strengths and challenges of medical foster care (MFC) as a placement setting for children with chronic critical illness (CCI).

The current study presents findings from a survey of child welfare caseworkers' experiences with reunifications and focuses on practices and key factors at the casework practice and at the system-environment level to assist in achieving successful reunification.

This study analyzes semistructured interviews of 15 foster parents on how foster parents perceive the sibling relationships of youth in foster care and ways to promote these relationships.

UNICEF is seeking a Project Management Consultant in Child Protection. 

In this sample of 160 retained specially-trained public child welfare workers and former students, sources of stress and satisfaction were examined three and five years after the conclusion of the students’ work obligation.

Save the Children is seeking a Senior Director of Child Protection. 

Based on primary and secondary source materials, this article traces the evolution of the US social work field's response to the needs of unaccompanied immigrant and refugee youth during the past two centuries.