This paper describes results from focus groups conducted with child welfare providers, educational personnel, and youth with histories of running away from foster care placements. 

This study uses data from the recent Modern Adoptive Families survey to understand parent perspectives on their preparation for adoption. 

According to this article from the National Post, the Canadian federal government will be allocating more money to child welfare services for indigenous communities on reserves.

Dually-involved youth represent a population of youth who receive some level of supervision from both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems concurrently. The current study examined education-related risk factors, recidivism, referrals for services, and service access among dually-involved youth in Los Angeles County, USA.

The objective of this study is to examine suicide attempts and completions among mothers who had a child taken into care by child protection services (CPS).

The objective of this study is to examine suicide attempts and completions among mothers who had a child taken into care by child protection services (CPS). 

This article from the Chronicle of Social Change details the increased use of kinship care for children in the need of out of home care in the United States, highlighting this shift in three different states in the US.

UNICEF is seeking a Child Protection Specialist.

The US has pulled out of the UN global compact on migration, according to this article from the Guardian. 

This study examines the causal effect of CPS involvement on the likelihood of future maltreatment using administrative case management records from July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011.