The 31st edition of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT® Data Book describes how children across the United States were faring before the coronavirus pandemic began. As always, policymakers, researchers and advocates can continue using this information to help shape their work and build a stronger future for children, families and communities.

This investigation applied contextual action theory and action-project method to the study of foster coparenting and the integration of children into the family.

In this piece for the Chronicle of Social Change, Vivek Sankaran writes about personal experience as a family defense lawyer and witnessing the racial disparity in the U.S. child welfare system, particularly in the racial bias in the discretion of child protective services (CPS) caseworkers.

This event, hosted by Disability Rights International (DRI) is the third in a webinar series on human rights of people with disabilities in light of the covid-19 pandemic.

This study describes healthcare utilization from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2016 among children in foster care in the greater Houston, Texas area who receive Medicaid coverage through a single Medicaid managed care organization for children in foster care.

This article from the Chronicle of Social Change tells the story of Meritsa Sedillo - a young woman in the U.S. who found herself living on the streets after her grandparents, who were her primary caregivers, died in 2017 - and how she got access to the support and foster care services she needed only through the juvenile justice system.

"An American Christian missionary has pleaded guilty in a US court to sexually abusing young girls at the orphanage he started in Kenya," says this article from BBC News.

This paper explores the efficacy of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Convention, UN General Assembly, 1989) through the lens of the over-representation of First Nations children placed in out-of-home care in Canada and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia.

This study uses longitudinal administrative data from twenty U.S. states to examine the risk of returning to foster care after children are either reunified with their parents or placed with guardians outside the foster care system.

The U.S. state of California has "enacted temporary extensions of foster care to ensure young adults aren’t cut off from basic needs benefits, as work, study and much of daily life remains virtually paralyzed," says this article from the Chronicle of Social Change.