The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) announces an open source competition for a program for disability advocates and organizations in South America and Panama to more effectively ensure governments meet their obligations to protect all people in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its Optional Protocol, including but not limited to implementation, enforcement or revision of local and national laws.

This study uses interviews with 20 youth formerly in foster care who exhibit better-than-average outcomes to explore contextual aspects of resilience during emerging adulthood, elucidating how both relational and organizational support contribute to their resiliency.

This article provides a conceptual depiction of how schools and treatment foster parents partnerships can be formed and maintained.

This study examined the relation between neighborhood disorder and children’s internalizing and externalizing problems among children in kinship care and tested caregivers’ social support as a potential mediator.

El segundo webinar organizado por RELAF en el contexto de la pandemia causada por el COVID-19 tuvo como objetivo proveer herramientas sobre el apoyo y contención; los contactos con sus familias y amigos; el manejo de la información; las estrategias terapéuticas tanto para niños y niñas en residencias, como en familias de acogida y en procesos de vinculación pre adoptiva.

Join this webinar on Thursday, April 9, 2020 from 3:00-4:00 pm EDT, to learn about "Flourishing Families," an activity-based curriculum for family-serving professionals.

This exploratory study examines practitioners’ and foster parents’ perceptions on use of Parent–Child Interaction Therapy in child welfare.

"The increased stress we're seeing in families due to the virus can increase children's risk of abuse at the hands of their loved ones," says this article from CNN.

This study addressed three research questions: (1) What are ACE totals in this sample of foster parents and how do they compare with the original CDC-Kaiser study? (2) Does foster parents’ ACE exposure relate to foster child behavior? (3) Is the relation between foster parents’ ACEs and children’s challenging behaviors different based on the specific ACE?

This article from PBS News Hours describes the concerns of child welfare experts that the COVID-19 crisis will lead to higher rates of child abuse in the US.