This scoping study yielded 37 empirical studies published in peer-reviewed journals addressing one of the most pressing, sensitive, and controversial issues facing child welfare policymakers and practitioners today: the dramatic overrepresentation of Indigenous families in North American public child welfare systems.

A youth-led organization, Oregon Foster Youth Connection, in the state of Oregon, USA has "announced recommendations designed to improve the state’s foster care system as it prepares to introduce legislation during the next legislative session" at their biannual conference

In this paper, the authors examine if and how care order proceedings could be improved in England, Finland, Norway, and California, USA, asking the judiciary decision‐makers about their views on what should be improved.

This study describes the feasibility, acceptability, and initial efficacy of iHeLP, a computer- and mobile phone-based intervention based in Motivational Interviewing for reducing substance use among youth exiting foster care. 

This video presents an exchange of lessons and experiences between youth and adult representatives of Nebraska Children and Families Foundation in the United States and Doncel Asociación Civil in Argentina, highlighting authentic youth engagement in addressing the needs of former foster youth.

This article from JAMA explores the health consequences for children who have been separated from their parents at the U.S. border with Mexico.

This study assesses prevalence of substance use, and the impact of housing instability. and independence preparation on substance use in two samples: youth currently in-care and former foster youth.

This article demonstrates how structural social work theory and critical consciousness development can be used to help facilitate a transition from a deficit model approach to an inequities perspective in a child welfare system that was working to improve the identification of and services for domestic minor sex trafficked youth (DMST).

In this editorial in the South African Journal of Psychology, Ann Skelton (a member of the Law Faculty at the University of Pretoria) writes about the recent family separation policy enacted at the US border with Mexico in which children of all ages arriving to the country with their parents or other family members were separated and placed into detention facilities.

This cross-sectional study uses a random sample of forty-six foster care alumni from a Midwestern public university to explore the relationship between exposure to trauma and post-secondary academic achievement.