The NewsTribune reports Foster Care Bill of Rights signed into law in the state of Missouri, which requires prioritizing reunification, whenever appropriate, and permanency for each child who enters the care system

This article discusses findings from the recent Lumos report Funding Haitian Orphanages at the Cost of Children's Rights, stressing the circumstances under which children enter into residential care as well as the prevalence of abuse within the care system. 

Lawmakers are considering five bills to help families stay together and modernize and improve the United States foster care system. 

KVC Kansas, a foster care contractor in Kansas, partnered with Child Trends to train foster parents and caseworkers about childhood trauma; results illustrated that if adults undersood the impact of trauma on the developing brain, foster children in their care were more likely to stay in one foster placement and have reports of better behavior. 

This BBC News film describes the impactful efforts of the Prison Doula Project, a Minnesota-based organization offering parenting programs for incarcerated women and their children. 

This news article reports an estimated 5,000 children were taken from poor families to be adopted by rich families in the United States between 1924 and 1950, orchestrated by Georgia Tann and the Tennessee Children's Home Society of Memphis. 

Introduced this April, the Child Welfare Inclusion Act of 2017 could allow adoption and foster care agencies to claim religious or moral objections to fostering LGBTQ youth or providing services for LGBTQ couples looking to adopt. 

Guatemala arrested three human rights officials and two police officers for their alleged responsibility in the death of 41 girls who died in a blaze in a children's shelter.

The CPC Learning Network’s Beth Rubenstein and Matt MacFarlane will host a webinar on Friday, June 9th, at 10am EDT to share findings and lessons learned from two pilots of the Measuring Separation in Emergencies (MSiE) project, an inter-agency initiative intended to strengthen emergency response programs for unaccompanied and separated children. They will also offer recommendations for next steps in the development of tools and methods in the field.

Lumos es una organización internacional cuyo trabajo se centra en poner fin a la institucionalización de los niños a nivel mundial para el año 2050.