Webinar 2 of the Developmental Trauma Disorder Series entitled "Identifying Critical Moments and Healing Complex Trauma" will be held Thursday 7 December.

This 3rd session of "Dismantling Racial Inequity Through Child Welfare Systems Change" webinar series will highlight how Allegheny County Department of Human Services uses data to inform child welfare practice and address the racial disproportionality that exists along the child welfare continuum.

This study uses data from the recent Modern Adoptive Families survey to understand parent perspectives on their preparation for adoption. 

This paper describes results from focus groups conducted with child welfare providers, educational personnel, and youth with histories of running away from foster care placements.

This paper describes results from focus groups conducted with child welfare providers, educational personnel, and youth with histories of running away from foster care placements. 

This study uses data from the recent Modern Adoptive Families survey to understand parent perspectives on their preparation for adoption. 

Dually-involved youth represent a population of youth who receive some level of supervision from both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems concurrently. The current study examined education-related risk factors, recidivism, referrals for services, and service access among dually-involved youth in Los Angeles County, USA.

This article from the Chronicle of Social Change details the increased use of kinship care for children in the need of out of home care in the United States, highlighting this shift in three different states in the US.

The US has pulled out of the UN global compact on migration, according to this article from the Guardian. 

This study examines the causal effect of CPS involvement on the likelihood of future maltreatment using administrative case management records from July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011.