This guide from the Annie E. Casey Foundation in the United States explores authentic youth engagement, including how it benefits young people, why it works and what it looks like in real life.

The current study employed a cluster analysis to identify unique patterns of functioning among adolescent mothers leaving foster care aged 19.

In this opinion piece for Youth Today, Regina Williams, a clinical assistant professor of counselor education and program coordinator of higher education administration at North Carolina Central University, describes the Career and College Readiness Self-Efficacy Inventory (CCRSI), which can be used by professionals seeking to enhance the career and college readiness of adolescents aging out of foster care.

As part of The Public's Radio series Living In Limbo, this segment features one family working to get the care their youngest foster child needs.

"A proposed rule by the Trump administration would allow foster care and adoption agencies to deny their services to L.G.B.T. families on faith-based grounds," according to this article from the New York Times.

This Note will examine some of the legal arguments surrounding the issue of family unity in immigration detention in the U.S. and how justice can be sought for the minors wrongfully classified by the government as “unaccompanied.”

The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences foster alumni college students (i.e., students who, as adolescents, were in foster care or other out-of-home conditions) considered pertinent during their first year in college.

This study aims to explore whether the social climate is perceived more positively by adolescent girls who participate in the Caring and Just Community Approach (CJCA), compared to those who participated in the cognitive behavioral approach (CBA).

With research into traditionally understood contributing factors such as poverty, substance use, mental health and intimate partner violence abounding, this study sought to identify underexamined factors that potentially sustain very high rates of child welfare (CW) involvement for Black mothers.

This study tested the hypothesis that group home size moderates peer influence-conduct problem relationships such that large homes with many residents are relatively risky places, while smaller homes with fewer residents are relatively protected places.