By examining the roots of policies that separate families and their entanglement with racial prejudice and discrimination, this report makes the case that we must embrace an alternative path.

This report presents findings from a research project to (1) address the knowledge gap on children who are unaccompanied immigrants1 (“CUI”), with its focus on the Chicago metropolitan area, and (2) provide relevant information to stakeholders who can strengthen the systems that support these young people.

This paper documents findings from an evaluation of the Live-In Family Enhancement (LIFE) program, and recommends that this approach be expanded for use in prevention as well as reunification.

The objective of this study was to identify different kin and fictive kin network support profiles available to children in foster care and examine whether these profiles predict behavioral outcomes.

This study evaluates whether the psychometric properties of the Pediatric Symptoms Checklist-17 (PSC-17), a common behavioral health measure typically used as a dichotomous screening tool for mental health needs, support its use as a continuous measure for tracking behavioral health over time.

This paper explores the literature of the existing interventions that are specifically used with American Indian families affected by child abuse and neglect.

The purpose of the current study was to explore how adolescent mothers experienced pregnancy and parenthood within the context of residential foster care.

This secondary analysis of data describing 1186 maltreated children, drawn from the US National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being II, examined racial disparities in their access to and receipt of needed services and in their caseworkers' case planning and engagement with caregivers.

This study is an outcome evaluation of the Guardian Scholars Program (GSP) at San Francisco State University, which supports current and former foster care youth on the campus.

This longitudinal study is the first to evaluate the ways in which out-of-home (OOH) caregivers influence permanency outcomes for children in the foster care system while controlling for child-level and parent-level characteristics.