This report explores ways for public agencies to ensure that children receive the care they need by enlisting more volunteers to step forward as foster parents and by encouraging the extraordinary individuals who have already answered the call to continue their commitment to care. The report identifies three major themes for engaging and empowering foster parents: ensuring quality caregiving for children; forging strong relationships; and, finding and keeping more amazing caregivers.

Nova Scotia will be the only province that does not allow birth mothers and adult adopted children to obtain information about one another. 

New Canadian child welfare law allows children to have a say in their care.

This study underscores the fact that visible minority families receiving child protective services are a far from homogeneous group and that there are a number of effective methods that can be used with them.

This study used the 2008 Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect data to determine the representation of child maltreatment investigations for Asian-Canadian versus White-Canadian children involved in the child welfare system.

This study tests an intervention to improve child welfare outcomes for substance abusing families, specifically the probability of families achieving a stable (at least 12 months) reunification. 

This research examines the long-term stability of legally permanent adoptive and guardianship homes for former foster youth. 

This brief explores challenges and strategies for evaluating systems and organizational change in US child welfare settings.

Adam Crapser was adopted and brought to the U.S. from South Korea at four years old.  Now, at 41, he's forced to return to a country he barely knows.

A column from Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy reviewing two short films, which feature former foster care youths and their memories of the foster care system.