Employing focus groups and participant-observation, this exploratory study examined areas of personal development, knowledge, and skills of young women who were formally in residential care in the Philippines to determine success factors for young women with traumatic histories.  

New parliamentary bill will help ensure the protection of unaccompanied refugee minors who enter Italy.

A column from Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy reviewing two short films, which feature former foster care youths and their memories of the foster care system.

A Fulbright scholar compares adoption experiences in China with those in America.

Bill Ong Hing shares his experiences on running a law school deportation clinic in California. 

Black youth in Canada speak up against systematic racism in the care system.

This study examines whether requiring parents to pay child support to offset the costs of foster care delays children's permanent placement, whether through reunification with a parent, adoption, or guardianship.

"Building on the Momentum: International Alternative Care Conference" will take place 3-5 October 2016 in Geneva.  

Edited by Tuhinul Islam and Leon Fulcher,  Residential Child and Youth Care in a Developing World: Global Perspectives  is the first volume of a series of four, bringing together contributions from local practitioners, educators and researchers across all regions on their countries' residential child and youth care traditions, policies and practices, as well as knowledge about children's needs, rights and personal upbringing there.

The report highlights the constant threat of sexual violence, exploitation, and child marriage that adolescents and girls face in Syria.