Youth-led, adult-supported advocacy groups are empowering foster youth in the U.S. to participate and show leadership in policy decisions that affect them. 

Julia Lurie takes an up-close look at the opioid epidemic in the United States, telling the stories of social workers working on child protection cases, parents struggling with addictions, and their affected children. 

The International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI) is hosting its 6th Conference, entitled “Children in a World of Opportunities: Innovations in Research, Policy and Practice.”  The event will take place on June 28-30, 2017 in Montreal, Canada.

The recently Protection of Children Act of 2017 would expedite the process of returning unaccompanied children crossing the U.S. border to their home countries, making them more vulnerable to human trafficking. 

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.