The purpose of this Information Memorandum (IM) is to strongly encourage all US child welfare agencies and Children’s Bureau (CB) grantees to work together with the courts and other appropriate public and private agencies and partners to plan, implement and maintain integrated primary prevention networks and approaches to strengthen families and prevent maltreatment and the unnecessary removal of children from their families.

This article from the Atlantic explores the practice of "second-chance adoptions," children who were already adopted and whose adoptive family no longer wishes to parent them, in the United States.

The current article provides a framework for developing an early childhood system of care that pairs a top‐down goal for the alignment of services with a bottom‐up goal of identifying and addressing needs of all families throughout early childhood.

This article from the Chronicle of Social Change explores the work of the Vermont Permanency Survey, a project of the National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation (QIC-AG).

Join the US Center for the Study of Social Policy on November 14, 2018 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. EST to learn more about an innovative survey designed to be used by organizations serving youth and young adults ages 12-26 to measure and improve their well-being.

This article from the Washington Post highlights findings from the Annie E. Casey report 'Fostering Youth Transitions,' which investigates the experiences of US youths transitioning from foster care to independent living.

This study examined variability in problem behavior among toddlers entering new foster care placements and identified related child and parenting characteristics.

This Annie E. Casey Foundation brief, which utilizes the most comprehensive data set ever collected across all 50 states of the US, fills in key details about the lives of young people who have experienced foster care.

The chapter describes the rationale, research support, and techniques that support the application of parent–child interaction therapy (PCIT) to American Indian families.

This chapter provides updated information about the use of parent–child interaction therapy (PCIT) with young children who have experienced maltreatment.