Using an intersectional framework, this study investigated whether race and gender alone or the intersection of race and gender predicted the educational attainment of 429 maltreated youth involved with the U.S. child welfare system.

SOS Children’s Villages and Deutsche Post DHL are organizing an event hosted by the Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN entitled “DECENT EMPLOYMENT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AT RISK: MULTI-STAKEHOLDER PARTNERSHIPS TO LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND.”

This resource from the U.S. Center for the Study of Social Policy presents recommendations highlighting strategies for improving the delivery of developmental screening and early intervention for children who become known to state and local child welfare systems.

The current study considers the educational experiences of unaccompanied immigrant children (UIC) in the Chicago metropolitan area from the perspective of diverse education, human service, and legal professionals that work with this population in Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) facilities, post-release, and community contexts.

This research examines how federal immigration policy impacted child migrants at the local Hudson Valley level and the collective response by service providers, educators, activists, and immigration lawyers to effectively deal with the crisis.

The purpose of this study is to (1) retrospectively characterize the specific implementation strategies employed to deliver a coordinated set of evidence-based screening and linkage practices to facilitate identification and treatment of early developmental and social-emotion problems; and (2) examine preliminary indicators of the impact of these strategies.

Child Trends invites applications for a Research Analyst position for quantitative aspects of research projects involving vulnerable families, including families with experience in the child welfare and criminal justice systems. 

This study examines whether mothers who had a child taken into care by child protection services have higher mortality rates compared with rates seen in their biological sisters who did not have a child taken into care.

UNICEF is seeking Child Protection Specialists in the areas of Prevention and response to violence and exploitation & Gender-based Violence in Emergencies. 

The purpose of this article is to describe the impact of current and evolving immigration policy on the health of unaccompanied children, to delineate barriers to care and challenges they face prior to gaining legal relief, and to suggest policy recommendations that support health and safety for them from the point of apprehension to and through achieving legal status.