In this opinion piece for Youth Today, Benjamin Bencomo - an assistant professor of social work at New Mexico Highlands University - writes about his experience as a social worker supporting an Indigenous young person as he aged out of foster care and how he learned to allow the young person to define his own goals for a successful transition to adulthood. 

This article from the Marshall Project describes how thousands of U.S. children are removed from their homes each year to be placed in foster care for only a few days and later returned to their families.

This article from KQED "looks back at some key moments" from the past few years of the U.S. government initiative to separate families at the border with Mexico and the "many legal challenges to stop it."

Nine parents who had been deported from the U.S. while their children (and other family members) remained in the country have been returned to the U.S. to be reunited with their children, according to this article from CBS News.

This article from the Associated Press reviews some key findings from a recent analysis on foster care outcomes, compiled by researchers from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau.

According to this article from the International Business Times, the government of Haiti "is pushing to deinstitutionalize children so as to avoid the darkest sides of orphanage life -- trafficking of kids or even worse abuse."

El presente llamado se realiza en el marco del convenio de cooperación vigente entre el Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres del Ministerio de Desarrollo Social (Inmujeres-MIDES) y el Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia, UNICEF, cuyo contenido refiere a la generación de conocimiento sobre Violencia Basada en Género (VBG) e Infancia.

New federal legislation in Canada now allows First Nations to take control of their own child welfare, and the Saskatchewan First Nations organization is now asking the federal government to transfer funds to First Nations agencies, allowing them to set up and run high quality services in their own communities, according to this article from CBC News.

In this segment from NPR, Efrén Olivares of the Texas Civil Rights Project discusses the lasting impacts of family separation on children and parents who have since been reunified.

All over the world, the pandemic has turned children's lives upside down. In this episode of Save the Children Documentary, they share their stories.