The Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) in Los Angeles County, California is launching a program "to use high-tech mapping to improve court-ordered visitations for the 18,000 children placed in the county’s foster care system," according to this article from the Chronicle for Social Change.

In this project, researchers provided foster parents with a trauma-informed, evidence-based parenting program (Incredible Years; IY) and assessed its impact on child behavior, foster parent stress and attitudes, and perceived effect on parenting.

The government of British Columbia in Canada has "introduced legislation that will give Indigenous communities greater involvement in child-welfare decisions," according to this article from Global News.

The authors of this paper conducted a systematic review with the aim of developing a better understanding of the psychosocial factors associated with the behavioral health of children in foster and kinship care.

The researchers in this study conducted a systematic review with the aim of developing a better understanding of the psychosocial factors associated with the behavioral health of children in foster and kinship care.

The current study examined how to best facilitate a healthier professional relationship between case managers and foster families with the goal of identifying concrete ways to improve the relationship and drive foster parent retention.

This article from the New York Times tells the stroy of Mirian, and other parents, who arrived to the U.S. from Central American and whose children were taken from them upon arrival. 

The current study examines the relationship between foster mothers' parenting stress and coparenting relationship quality, and the moderating influence of foster caregiver role support.

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With the support community and academic partners, a school-based health center administered by a Federally Qualified Health Center developed a plan for outreach, systematic screening and referral to services for newcomer youth.