The present study examined whether the prospective association between cumulative pre-adoptive risk (e.g., maltreatment, age at placement, foster placement instability, ever having lived with birth parent) and adolescent/young-adult substance use was mediated by childhood internalizing and externalizing problems in youth adopted from foster care.

A First Nations child welfare organization has prioritized further understanding of reunification and parenting, including identification of successes and barriers to reunification, and service needs within communities. These priorities were addressed with a community-based participatory research model and guided by a Research Advisory. 

Among older youth transitioning from the foster care system, this longitudinal study examined the association of religious and spiritual capital to substance use in the past year at age 19. 

This study sought to build on previous work that calls for the need to develop programs to support foster care alumni in higher education and to obtain a better understanding of the characteristics of existing programs and the perceived programmatic and student challenges as reported by program directors and staff, faculty, and researchers. 

This article from the Mankato Free Press of Minnesota, USA describes the benefits of a local monthly support group of grandfamilies and other kinship carers and the stories of some of the families who meet once a month to lend one another support. 

The number of children in the US removed from their homes by child welfare agencies due to a parent's disability has been on the rise in the United States in recent years, according to this article from the Pacific Standard.

Jane Philpott, Indigenous Services Minister in Canada, has raised concern over Manitoba's plans to reform its First Nations child welfare system. 

The focus of this paper will be the intersection of law, policy implementation, and social work in child protection, specifically child protection involving children who are separated by an international border from their families.

Children with disabilities are at least three times more likely to be abused or neglected than their peers without disabilities, and they are more likely to be seriously injured or harmed by maltreatment. This bulletin describes the scope of the problem, risk factors, and strategies for prevention. 

The federal Government of Canada has reached a settlement with the First Nations victims of the so-called “Sixties Scoop,” according to this article from Indian Country Today.