According to this article from the National Post, the Canadian federal government will be allocating more money to child welfare services for indigenous communities on reserves.

This article from the Chronicle of Social Change details the increased use of kinship care for children in the need of out of home care in the United States, highlighting this shift in three different states in the US.

UNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Specialist.

The US has pulled out of the UN global compact on migration, according to this article from the Guardian. 

In this video from Matter of Fact, Correspondent Jessica Gomez meets with lawyers from the Safe Passage Project who say they can help unaccompanied migrant children in the US.

Foster Parent and National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Member, Diane Lanni, interviews her adult birth daughter about being a child of foster parents.

In this piece for the Huffington Post, Dr. Shannon Senefeld, Senior Vice President for Overseas Operations at Catholic Relief Services, makes a case explaining why donors (particularly those from the U.S.) should not donate their money to orphanages. 

The Government of Yukon, Canada is introducing a new three-year pilot project to reunite families. 

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, on behalf of the government of Canada, has offered a formal apology for the use of residential schools for indigenous children in Newfoundland and Labrador, according to this article from the BBC.

This article from CNN exposes the exploitation that many children experience in Haitian orphanages.