In this video from the BBC, Katy Watson tells the story of one mother and daughter who were able to reunite briefly during a 20-minute opening of the US-Mexico border in California. 

ISS-USA is implementing a training in Guatemala on April 28-29th. This training is part of a project to provide coordinated cross border social services for children and families migrating in the Northern Triangle, Mexico, and the U.S.

The state of Indiana in the US has just opened the country’s first “baby boxes” at two fire stations in Northern Indiana, according to this article from Wyfi. 

According to recent estimates from Statistics Canada, nearly half of the children in foster care in Canada are aboriginal, and in Saskatchewan, the percentage of aboriginal children in the child welfare system is a staggering 85 percent, says this article from Global News. 

On 19 April 2016, Fundación Munasim Kullakita (a member of RISE´s Latin American Regional Working Group) will be hosting a webinar to discuss how they are implementing the care model ECO2 with children affected by sexual exploitation in Bolivia.

On April 18 – 19, 2016, the New York University’s Silver School of Social Work will host the conference ‘Making Extended Care Work for Foster Youth: The State of the Evidence.’

In her piece for the Huffington Post Blog, Mirah Riben writes about the issue of Family Preservation, explaining its meaning and why it should be prioritized as a response for at-risk families. 

In light of a UN meeting this week to review indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Lumos, along with the Better Care Network and over 170 other organizations, have signed a letter to the UN urging the inclusion of children living outside of households and/or without parental care in UN data collection. 

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has issued a new report indicating that Mexican officials are routinely deporting vulnerable children from Central America who immigrate to Mexico to escape violence in their home countries, according to this article from the Guardian. 

A woman who was adopted from China to the United States in the early 1990s has authored this moving piece for Foreign Policy, detailing her search for her birth family, and the many birth families she met along the way who miss and long for information on their “lost,” or “abandoned” daughters.