Act 4 of this episode of 'This American Life' describes the way that US immigration policy has separated families by parental deportation, with a particular focus on parents originally from Latin America.

In this opinion piece from Youth Today, Bill Baccaglini - president and CEO of The New York Foundling, one of the oldest and largest organizations in New York serving at-risk youth and their families - writes about the need for child welfare practitioners to "think more expansively" about their missions.

This study examines a program (iHeLP) for substance use reduction in foster youth aging out of care.

This study explored stakeholder perceptions of barriers and facilitators to conversations about sexual health between foster/kinship caregivers and youth in foster care, with the goal of developing a brief, scalable sexual health training for caregivers.

This issue of the New Directions for Community Colleges journal is focused on higher education opportunities for foster youth.

According to this article from the Guardian, the US government has separated 429 asylum-seeking families in the past two years.

This study examined communication between 51 transition-aged foster youth and their social workers as related to perceived relationship quality and satisfaction with care receipt/provision.

This article from TIME Magazine tells the story of a family in the US that has been separated by deportation and explains the current government immigration policies and practices that are leading to many other family separations in the country.

This brief presents key takeaway messages from a mixed methods study examining how substance use affects child welfare systems across the country.

This paper presents the results from a Youth Lead Project on the voices and participation of children in state care in Ontario Canada.