This resource guide offers a fairly comprehensive guide to engaging with the Aboriginal community on Prince Edward Island, Canada. It includes a history of the use of residential schools for Aboriginal children, as well as a description of the widespread removal of Aboriginal children from their families and communities for adoption placement in the 1960s through the 1980s.

This fact sheet describes the rights of native children and families under the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in the United States.

This paper addresses the disconnect between research and practice in regards to child welfare and child mental health services in the US.

This Guide, written in Spanish, features a compilation of several social protection programs, services and public policies that resulted in the prevention of family breakdown and in the support of families and communities in caring and protecting their children.  All these examples are taken from the Latin American region, Italy and Romania.

Esta Guía, escrito en español, es una herramienta diseñada para colaboración con profesionales quienes trabajan en la implementación y manejo de programas de acogimiento familiar en América Latina. 

This study, produced by the Children’s Advocacy Institute at the San Diego School of Law, examines the activities of the federal government of the United States in regards to enacting and enforcing child welfare laws and ensuring that individual states are complying with minimum federal standards for child protection.

The First Peoples Child & Family Review proudly presents this Special Edition on Custom Adoptions in partnership with the Siem Smun’eem Indigenous Child Wellbeing Research Network at the University of Victoria. This edition contains research articles, agency experiences, cultural perspectives and personal stories that highlight custom adoption from a historical and contemporary perspective.

This paper forms Part 2 of a two-part discussion paper on Indigenous custom adoption.

This paper forms Part 1 of a two-part discussion paper on Indigenous custom adoption.

This article is a review of lessons learned from the Yellowhead Tribal Services Agency (YTSA) pilot program.