This article explores how a child's psychological family can be affected, challenged, and transformed in the foster care system. When placed into foster care, children are often disconnected from many significant relationships, especially familial relationships (e.g., parents, siblings).

Catholic Relief Services is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Project Development and Award Management Officer to support the development, planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of country buy-ins and global program implementation, including both programmatic and financial aspects.

Catholic Relief Services is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Senior Technical Advisor, Household Economic Strengthening to provide technical assistance supporting 4Children program design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

Catholic Relief Services’ 4Children team is currently searching for an experienced child protection professional to assume the leadership of and provide direction for ‘Keeping Children in Healthy and Protective Families’ (KCHPF) initiative. 

Catholic Relief Services is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Senior Technical Advisor, Research and Learning to provide technical assistance and quality assurance supporting the 4Children Project.

This article discusses the legal residency advocacy campaign that occurred in the late 2000s in the Netherlands and the United States on behalf of immigrant youths with precarious legal status.

Former NHL Speaker Sheldon Kennedy gave the Keynote speech at this year's  International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect conference in Calgary (ISPCAN).

The Early Intervention Family Drug Court (EIFDC) provides drug-addicted parents the opportunity to get clean while keeping their families intact. 

This article examines and discusses the designation of unaccompanied Chinese children as "Unaccompanied Alien Children" and the processes experienced in obtaining such designations.

The 21st ISPCAN Congress, entitled “Protecting our Children, Protecting our Future,” will be held in Calgary, Canada 28-31 August, 2016.