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This article discusses the implications of the influx of parents into the child welfare system for welfare authorities, using the U.S. state of Florida as an example.
This article from the Guardian shines a light on the "nearly one million 'left-behind' Venezuelan children whose parents have been forced to migrate, leaving their offspring in the care of grandparents, aunts, siblings, neighbours or sometimes even completely alone."
"Children in Maryland's foster care system are languishing in psychiatric hospitals even when they no longer require hospital care," says this segment of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday. "The state doesn't have enough space to place them elsewhere."
The purpose of this study was to describe the demographics, state-dependent living situations, and juvenile detention usage of state-dependent commercially sexually exploited youth.
A fire tore through a children’s group home in Haiti Thursday night, killing at least 15 children at a facility run by a U.S.-based Christian organization, according to UNICEF.
Using a sequential, mixed methods approach, data from 115 sexually active African American youth in foster care (17-20 years old) were analyzed to determine their level of protection and whether gender was a factor in their prevention efforts.
In this opinion piece for Youth Today, Benjamin Bencomo - an assistant professor of social work at New Mexico Highlands University - writes about his experience as a social worker supporting an Indigenous young person as he aged out of foster care and how he learned to allow the young person to define his own goals for a successful transition to adulthood.
The purpose of this paper is to examine child characteristics and child welfare services associated with high welfare costs in the US, defined as the top decile of child welfare costs.
This report describes the evolution of an independent youth-led organization for youth in and from care in Quebec, Canada
This article from the Marshall Project describes how thousands of U.S. children are removed from their homes each year to be placed in foster care for only a few days and later returned to their families.