El objetivo de este documento es identificar y transmitir las características del método que ha empleado RELAF para generar la adecuación de los subsistemas de protección integral de derechos de los niños privados de cuidados familiares o en riesgo de perderlos, haciendo énfasis en procesos de desinstitucionalización.

This study investigates staff perspectives on a new form of intensive oversight developed in New York State to prevent maltreatment of youth in care facilities.

This brief summarizes insights drawn from Community of Practice conversations and provides recommendations for local governments, service providers, and other partners considering Pay for success (PFS) as a tool for financing interventions serving transitional youth.

New York City's "foster care and juvenile justice system’s 12,000-person workforce, mostly housed at the city’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), has begun taking a new course exploring how subtle, unconscious prejudice ­– often called implicit bias – influences everything from interactions with co-workers to high-stakes child abuse and neglect investigations," according to this article from the Chronicle of Social Change.

This study applies cumulative adversity and stress proliferation theories to examine risk and protective resource profiles of youth with three different levels of housing and parental care instability.

This resource compiles critical data from a variety of sources on children, youth, and families who came in contact with the US child welfare system in federal fiscal year (FY) 2017.

"In each of the past four years, 1,000 or more immigrant children who arrived at the southern U.S. border without their parents have reported being sexually abused while in government custody," says this article from NPR, citing federal records that have recently been released.

The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the interactions between children and their siblings in an institutional shelter in Brazil.

This study utilized administrative data that reviewed child welfare cases in a Midwestern state in the U.S. to examine interactions between teamwork and parent engagement associated with the permanency of children in out-of-home care.

The objective of this study was to examine prenatal care among women with a history of having a child placed in out-of-home care, and whether their care differed from care among women who did not.