The contract for a temporary housing facility for immigrant children in Tornillo, Texas in the US was set to terminate August 13, "but now the government is planning to continue using it to shelter children for yet another month, according to a sp

This webinar, hosted by the National Family Support Network, will introduce the Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support. 

This article introduces a series from the Guardian that explores the experiences of fathers on paternity leave or caring full-time for their children.

This article from BBC News tells the stories of "cuckoo families" in El Salvador, women and families who are chosen and coerced by gang members to care for certain children. 

This article from the Guardian shares some of the stories of long-term trauma caused by the U.S. family separation policy.

A recent lawsuit alleges that children who have been separated from their parents at the U.S. border with Mexico, who are under the supervision of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), were routinely given anti-anxiety and antidepressant drugs, sometimes by force, according to this article from the Guardian.

The government of Haiti has set out "to improve the deplorable status of the country’s children," through a partnership between the state child welfare agency and several international child-service organizations, by beginning to build a foster care system in the country, according to this article from the Washington Post.

Although the US has ended its policy of family separation for families crossing the US border with Mexico, experts state that it may take years to reunify the families that have already been separated at the border due to different obstacles, according to this article from the Guardian.

This webinar, organized by the National Family Support Network, seeks to answer the following questions: (a) What is both the history and current landscape of the Family Support and Strengthening Field in the United States? (b) What is a Family Resource Center and how are they networked across the country? (c) What is the connection of Family Resource Centers to evidence-based practice and what positive outcomes have they achieved for children and families?

The Global Social Service Workforce Alliance is recruiting a new director.