Child Trends invites applications for a Research Analyst position for quantitative aspects of research projects involving vulnerable families, including families with experience in the child welfare and criminal justice systems. 

UNICEF is seeking Child Protection Specialists in the areas of Prevention and response to violence and exploitation & Gender-based Violence in Emergencies. 

A group of Maori — Indigenous Peoples of New Zealand — have arrived in Manitoba, Canada to meet with Indigenous leaders there and share their best practices in reducing the number of Indigenous children in foster care, according to this article from CBC News.

New York City government officials have released a plan to increase kinship care placements in the city, according to this article from the Chronicle of Social Change. 

A foster care group home in Kansas, USA housing 10 teenage girls in care, Carla's Youth Residential Center, has been closed due to suspected physical and sexual abuse and the facility, according to this article from U.S. News & World Report.

This article from the Washington Post tells the story of a family, and others like them, who migrated from El Salvador to the United States and were separated upon crossing into the US.

Act 4 of this episode of 'This American Life' describes the way that US immigration policy has separated families by parental deportation, with a particular focus on parents originally from Latin America.

In this opinion piece from Youth Today, Bill Baccaglini - president and CEO of The New York Foundling, one of the oldest and largest organizations in New York serving at-risk youth and their families - writes about the need for child welfare practitioners to "think more expansively" about their missions.

According to this article from the Guardian, the US government has separated 429 asylum-seeking families in the past two years.

This article from TIME Magazine tells the story of a family in the US that has been separated by deportation and explains the current government immigration policies and practices that are leading to many other family separations in the country.