This guide, published by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, provides a summary of promising practices currently used in recruitment and retention of foster/adoptive families. 

Catholic Relief Services is seeking a qualified candidate for Project Director (PD) for the USAID funded Coordinating Comprehensive Care for Children (4Children) project. 

This TedX presentation features Greta Munns, a youth empowerment advocate who was placed in foster care at age fifteen. Her “story” is what prompted her exploration of the foster care system.

The Child Welfare Policy Manual, issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children’s Bureau, contains policy questions and answers applicable to child welfare programs operated by the Children's Bureau. 

The Maternal and Child Health Life Course Research Network (LCRN) is hosting a webinar on 27 October, presented by Pilyoung Kim, PhD, Family and Child Neuroscience Lab, University of Denver. 

This article from Human Rights First highlights the harmful impact that the detention of asylum-seeking families in the US has on children.

According to this article from Color Lines, health officials in the state of Texas in the US “have been refusing to issue birth certificates to the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants” and a district judge has just ruled that officials can continue to withhold these documents from children. A group of immigrant families have filed a lawsuit and the case will now proceed to trial.

Join USG and the OVC Task Force for an event that will discuss OVC programmming in the PEPFAR 3.0 landscape.

Gerald Dean Campbell, a man from Texas, in the U.S., who served as a missionary in Malawi was arrested for “engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places” and has admitted to sexually abusing 11 children at a children’s home in Malawi where he served as general manager from 1997-2009. 

A dedicated Program Specialist is needed to provide technical and administrative support to the 4Children project in the coming year.