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WNYC News,

This radio segment from WNYC describes a new audio-visual exhibition in New York City that tells the stories of 100 "former orphan" adoptees born in South Korea who are now adults living all over the world.

Priscilla Alvarez - CNN,

This article from CNN describes findings from new report outlining the impacts of family separation on migrant children in the US.

Michael Fitzgerald - The Chronicle of Social Change,

"According to a new evaluation from a top research institute, New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) may have figured out one way to do that: Hire more case planners for foster youth," says this article from the Chronicle of Social Change.

Sara Josefna González y María Soledad Gomez - RELAF,

Este informe de RELAF resume las presentaciones y discusiones del Seminario Internacional 2019 de RELAF. 

Sara Josefna González and María Soledad Gomez - RELAF,

This report from RELAF summarizes the presentations and discussions from RELAF's 2019 International Seminar, "For the right to family and community life. Putting an end to the confinement of children deprived of parental care."

Amy M. Salazar, Rachel Peterson, Sara Spiers, Garrett Jenkins Adrian Tucker Abigail Bambilla - Washington State University Vancouver,

The purpose of this study is to synthesize and share the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative’s approach to youth engagement. The study’s findings communicate how authentically engaging youth can help both the Jim Casey Initiative and youth-serving systems achieve their desired results.

Rachel Baptista, Maria Helena Zamora, Eduardo Santos - International Journal of Advanced Engineering Research and Science (IJAERS) ,

This article examines the family reintegration process for those in care in Portugal and Brazil.

Lawrence Allen, David Daniels, Angela Lee, Taryn Tasker, Carla Gayle Woffard - Journal of Family Strengths,

This article highlights the experiences of staff who responded to the needs of individuals, families, and communities following Hurricane Michael in Florida, USA in October 2018 and is focused on the perspectives of individuals working in the field.

Royel M. Johnson, Terrell L. Strayhorn - Journal of College Student Development,

To help increase the college preparation of local foster youth in a Midwestern city in the US, the authors developed a working group comprised of foster youth nominated by agency staff, staff from a university research center that sponsored and coordinated the program, local community leaders who work with foster youth, and city government representatives.

Chrishana M. Lloyd, Maggie Kane, Deborah Seok, Claudia Vega - Child Trends,

This report examines home visiting models and curricula, state- and federal-level policies related to early care and education and home visiting, funding streams to support early care and education and home visiting, and the perspectives of home-based child care (HBCC) providers and parents in order to explore the potential for scaling up this model of professional development for HBCC providers in the United States.