In this webinar, the National Family Support Network and Be Strong Families will join together to provide an overview of the value of Parent Leadership opportunities for both programs and parents/caregivers. The organizations will detail resources, tools, technical assistance, and trainings they have available to support meaningful parent leadership development, including the Developing and Sustaining Effective Parent Advisory Committees Training and Parent Cafes.

El presente estudio aborda la realidad del impacto de la migración forzosa en niños, niñas y adolescentes venezolanos.

This documentary from Noticias Telemundo shares the stories of children in Guatemala who were separated from their parents and sold for adoption.

In this opinion piece for the Chronicle of Social Change, Dr. Ali Caliendo (the executive director of Foster Kinship, a nonprofit organization devoted to the support of kinship families in the U.S. state of Nevada) outlines her recommendations for child welfare systems to improve outcomes for children by adopting best practices in supporting kinship families.

The purpose of this study was to examine factors related to unintentional child injury requiring medical attention, including child welfare placement type, child behavioral problems, caregiver characteristics, and neighborhood factors.

This chapter from the book Education in Out-of-Home Care aims to (1) provide an overview of educational background and educational expectations of adolescents aging out of care in Brazil; (2) examine associations between educational background and extracurricular activity and placement characteristics; and (3) discuss the specificities of education in care for adolescents in Brazil as well as its similarities with other countries.

This chapter from the book Education in Out-of-Home Care describes trends in the secondary and postsecondary educational attainment of care-experienced young people in the California Youth Transitions to Adulthood Study (CalYOUTH), support they received to pursue their education, and the obstacles they have encountered along the way.

This Chapter from the book Education in Out-of-Home Care reviews research and promising programs in the U.S. affecting the educational success of children in foster care.

This chapter from the book Education in Out-of-Home Care outlines the skills that are necessary for a successful start to formal schooling for children placed into out-of-home care (OHC).

The present research from the book Education in Out-of-Home Care examined the question of possible gender effects of a tutoring program for children in foster care in Ontario, Canada, as well as several other questions of a practice-related nature, including the impact of implementation fidelity on the effectiveness of the tutoring program and the children’s and caregivers’ perception of the tutoring.