This study compares the role of advocacy coalitions in forming child protection policies in the United States and Indonesia, looking at the problems that arise from their different political and governance systems. The findings show how important it is to improve inter-agency collaboration, strengthen local governance, and get more political support to fix the problems with child protection services

This study examined the relationship between disability type and service receipt among U.S. transition-age youth aging out of foster care, a population in which 53% have a diagnosed disability, across all U.S. states, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico.

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The rapid scale-up of immigration enforcement operations in the United States throughout 2025 has resulted in the termination of legal status, detention, and deportation for hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

This article explores how undocumented mothers in Canada are excluded from key family support programs, showing how legal and administrative barriers deepen poverty, limit children’s access to early education, and increase mothers’ vulnerability to dependence, exploitation, and gender-based violence. Using a feminist social reproduction lens, it highlights how these policies undervalue mothers’ labour and calls for reforms to expand access to benefits and uphold the rights of undocumented families.

The book provides a framework for structuring the improvement process and teaches users how to craft actionable questions about system outcomes.

This report presents findings from a 2022 consultation with kinship caregivers across British Columbia, highlighting their experiences navigating children and family services. Analysis revealed the need for recognition and respect for kinship families, improved access to consistent and equitable supports, trauma-informed and culturally grounded practices, and stronger collaboration with service providers, with caregivers’ calls for action emphasizing system improvements to sustain caregiving and promote children’s well-being.

This brief, from the US National Child Welfare Center, can help child welfare professionals establish a common understanding among community partners, legislators, agency staff, caregivers, youth, and other partners about what an integrated, comprehensive, Prevention-focused approach looks like along a three-tiered Prevention continuum.

This article reports how Los Angeles County’s foster care population has dropped sharply — about 46 % over the past five years, a sharper decline than statewide and national trends — driven largely by deliberate changes in practice and policy that