This secondary analysis of data describing 1186 maltreated children, drawn from the US National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being II, examined racial disparities in their access to and receipt of needed services and in their caseworkers' case planning and engagement with caregivers.

The Early Childhood Care and Development Adviser will lead and manage Whole Child International’s ECCD component of the recently awarded USAID’s five-year PROMOVER project.

This study is an outcome evaluation of the Guardian Scholars Program (GSP) at San Francisco State University, which supports current and former foster care youth on the campus.

This longitudinal study is the first to evaluate the ways in which out-of-home (OOH) caregivers influence permanency outcomes for children in the foster care system while controlling for child-level and parent-level characteristics.

The present study sought to clarify the relation between maltreatment and mental health among youth in foster care by studying both the isolated dimensions of maltreatment and cumulative maltreatment, and to determine whether the effects of maltreatment on mental health operated indirectly through placement instability.

This study tested the effectiveness of Parent Management Training, Oregon (PMTO) model on child social–emotional well-being.

The objective of the present study is to describe the context in which temporary placements are used by children’s services in Quebec (Canada) while analyzing the associative link between temporary placements and physical abuse as the reason for the placement.

This article from the Chronicle of Social Change describes the work of ChildKind, an organization based in the state of Georgia in the US which seeks to prevent medical neglect and children entering the foster care system by supporting families to stay together and care for children with special needs. 

This article is a call to action for social workers who may now encounter Unaccompanied Minors (UAM) for the first time in their practice.

This study tests the associations of risk and protective factors on mental health outcome variables of youth in foster care with disabilities.