Family for Every Child examined the critical issue of sexual violence affecting boys through this global scoping study, Caring for Boys Affected by Sexual Violence.

This study aimed at investigating prevalence and precursors of breakdowns in long‐term foster care, the duration of placement before breakdown, and the association of child and placement characteristics with breakdown.

This paper presents a model of care‐leaving that incorporates developments in the political economy of health literature to show how differing welfare state arrangements shape health by mediating the distribution of economic and social resources over the life course for populations in general and for those in and leaving care specifically.

Guided by the Cultural Competence Attainment Model, the purpose of this study is to examine how socio‐demographic and work characteristics are associated with variations in child welfare professionals' (CWPs) attitudes about father involvement and family instability and how these attitudes are linked with whether they view relationship and marriage education as relevant to their efforts to support families.

The INSPIRE Indicator Guidance and Results Framework is designed to help governments and non-governmental organizations monitor progress and track change over time as they implement INSPIRE strategies to prevent and respond to violence against children.

This paper presents findings from a study in which semistructured interviews were conducted with 33 parents court ordered to participate in a parent education group due to involvement with the child welfare system.

This paper presents findings from an 18-month randomized controlled trial in which intact families (N = 122) with at least one CPS report were provided with a facilitated connection to a paraprofessional evidence-based HV program or usual care services from child protection.

This study examined educational attainment and earnings among former foster youth in early adulthood.

The Global Compact forms a basis to improve governance and international understanding of migration, to address the challenges associated with migration today, and to strengthen the contribution of migrants and migration to sustainable development.

This article looks at how charity organizations running private residential child care institutions on the Kenyan coast make use of the personal data of children in their care, as a means of securing and maintaining the support of donors from the global North.

This revised version of Children First: National Guidance for the Protection and Welfare of Children describes the four main types of abuse and sets out the steps which should be taken to ensure that the child or young person is protected from harm.

This bulletin for professionals addresses the scope of the problem of child neglect, its consequences, and the importance of prevention.

This factsheet outlines the types of adoption support and preservation services available in the U.S., their benefits, and ways to find services in your area.

This perspectives paper from InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV) includes statements from a group of international adoptees in response to the question: "Would you adopt via Intercountry or Transracial Adoption? Why, why not?

This report explores federal programs available to support youth aging out of foster care in the US.

Este informe documenta violaciones a derechos humanos, explotación y trata de niñas, niños y adolescentes con y sin discapacidad en instituciones Guatemala.

In this study, 30 primary school aged UK adoptees without a history of institutionalisation completed an assessment of their intellectual, executive functioning and social communication abilities.

This systematic review aimed to establish the effectiveness of interventions with adoptive parents on adopted children and adolescents’ psychological well-being, behavioural functioning and parent–child relationship.

This article presents findings from a cross-national study exploring how social workers in child welfare conceptualise ‘family’, and how they relate to ‘family’ in their practice.

Drawing on Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory, this study aimed to explore key informants’ views about child abuse.

This study provides UK evidence for the relationship between kinship care and deprivation and examines how the welfare state frames kinship care in policy and practice.

The purpose of this study was to establish the prevalence of symptoms of anxiety disorder, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among adolescents with a history of abuse and neglect living in charitable children’s institutions (CCIs) in Nairobi County, Kenya.

This qualitative interview study with custodians and young people who have experienced custody transfer highlights that who counts as family and as a parent is ambiguous.

In this study, key predictors of trauma were examined using a multi-group analysis of a nationally representative sample of 716 child welfare involved youth ages 11–17.

This manual, supported by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI) Grant, offers guidance on the implementation of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) with children in foster care and their families.

The aim of the article is to describe and discuss how issues related to schooling and educational achievement are recognized and addressed in social services case files for children and young people placed in out-of-home care (OHC) in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden.

This paper will report on a study comparing case files for girls victimized (n = 73) and not victimized (n = 62) by commercial sexual exploitation who were living in a residential care setting in a large southwestern city in the United States.

This paper evaluates a five-module curriculum for recently immigrated youth called FUERTE (Family Reunification and Resiliency Training).

This study examines the forms of abuse and neglect experienced by children living in orphanages in East Java Province, efforts by children in orphanages to deal with the acts of abuse experienced, and the role of the orphanage or the Child Social Welfare Institution (LKSA) in providing protection and fulfillment of the rights of abandoned children.

This report from Human Rights Watch examines the arbitrary procedures and inordinate delays in determining that unaccompanied migrant children in France are under age 18, the first step to entry into the French child protection system.

The goal of this contribution is to bring to light some systemic applications of organizational power that occur within the child protection system in Iceland.

This paper is based on literature review on the legal, political and social context of Malaysia regarding child welfare and social work.

This qualitative interview study examined experiences of youth-initiated mentoring relationships (YIM) among youth transitioning out of the foster care system.

This report explores the over-representation of Indigenous and Black children in the child welfare system in Ontario.

INSPIRE Handbook: Action for implementing the seven strategies (hereafter referred to as the INSPIRE Handbook) explains in detail how to choose and implement interventions that will fit your needs and context.

This paper presents findings from a longitudinal study with seventy-five carers was conducted over twenty months, comparing placements that broke down to those that did not an identifying personal and family factors that increase the likelihood of foster placement success.

The current study from the Infant Mental Health Journal addressed whether two institution‐wide interventions in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, that increased caregiver sensitivity (Training Only: TO) or both caregiver sensitivity and consistency (Training plus Structural Changes: T+SC) promoted better socioemotional and cognitive development than did a No Intervention (NoI) institution during the first year of life for children who were placed soon after birth.

This report presents the findings from an assessment workshop aimed at informing action planning to address high-priority needs identified in alternative care for children in Uganda.

This report, in the Moldovan langauge, presents the findings of an assessment workshop aimed at informing action planning to address priority needs identified in alternative care for children in Moldova.

This report, in the Moldovan lanugage, presents the findings of an assessment workshop aimed at informing action planning to address priority needs identified in alternative care for children in Moldova.

This report presents the findings of an assessment workshop aimed at informing action planning to address priority needs identified in alternative care for children.

This report presents the findings of an assessment workshop aimed at informing action planning to address priority needs identified in alternative care for children in Moldova.

This report presents the findings of an assessment of Ghana's national alternative care system aimed at supporting the government and its partners in continuing to advance alternative care.

This report, in Armenian, presents the findings of an assessment workshop aimed at bringing together key stakeholders—decision makers, policy developers, service providers, civil society representatives, and donors—to assess and identify the main care reform areas in which action is needed.

This report presents the findings of an assessment workshop aimed at bringing together key stakeholders—decision makers, policy developers, service providers, civil society representatives, and donors—to assess and identify the main care reform areas in Armenia in which action is needed.

This infographic explores the "shocking" statistics behind child abuse and neglect in the United States and how social workers can help children who have been maltreated and make efforts to prevent further abuse.

This brief document from CPC Learning Network underscores the importance of continuing to advocate for child rights and asks the questions: What should that movement look like—and focus on—in the current era? What role do we each want to play?

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the state of international children’s rights, to inform the discussions of a small group of specialists in August 2017, and to make a contribution to ongoing global discussions about child protection and children’s rights.

This paper draws attention to a small sample of policy approaches and developments in meeting the needs of oung people leaving care settings in certain jurisdictions.

This study examines the use of linguistics features among male and female foster children in Malaysia in expressing their needs to improve their academic performance.

This article presents the findings of the Questionnaire to Assess Needs of Children in Care (QANCC), a tool designed to gather children's direct input on the management of Udayan Care's care homes in India.

This article from the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care describes the Family Based Care (FBC) program by SOS Children's Villages of India.

This article discusses how important it is for children in residential care to develop the ability to navigate relationships with each other.

This article reviews developments in the Australian NSW child protection system which aim to reduce the number of children in state care.

This study from the Special Issue on Adoption Breakdown of the journal of Research on Social Work Practice examines foster care reentry after adoption, in Illinois and New Jersey, USA.

Le présent Manuel d’orientation fournit des informations et des outils utiles pour les églises, les organisations confessionnelles, les donateurs et autres acteurs qui font passer la garde des enfants du placement en institution au placement en famille.

Este Manual de Orientación provee información y herramientas útiles para iglesias, organizaciones religiosas, donantes y otros que persiguen transferir el cuidado de niños que son atendidos en residencias al cuidado en una familia.

This meta‐analytic review examines the presence and quality of close peer relationships for adoptees and individuals with foster care experience.

This study used Group Concept Mapping (GCM) with a sample of 31 foster youth and alumni to explicate a conceptual framework for effective legal representation.

This statement, submitted on behalf of the Scientific Advisory Group, Early Childhood of the Bezos Family Foundation, has been released in light of the policy of family separation of immigrant families at the U.S. border with Mexico and outlines the harmful impacts of the toxic stress of family separation on children's brain development and physical wellbeing.

This paper focuses on the role of ‘soft conditionality’ implemented through both ‘labelling’ and ‘messaging’ in evaluating the impact of the Child Grants Program in Lesotho, an unconditional cash transfer programme targeting poor households with orphans and vulnerable children.

The aim of this qualitative grounded-theory situational study was to explore experiences of social networks among unaccompanied minors (UM) and the significance of those networks for becoming established in Sweden, based on data from in-depth interviews with 11 young persons.

This study focuses on workers’ rationales in placement decisions in child abuse cases in the Netherlands.

For this study, forty men and women from five semi-rural villages in Meru County, Kenya participated in a Rapid Rural Appraisal to explore main and underlying reasons why children may be, or may feel, unwelcome in the home and thus migrate to the street.

This study examined preconception and prenatal predictors of time to first child protective services (CPS) contact among Alaska children.

The study from the Special Issue on Adoption Breakdown of the journal of Research on Social Work Practice investigated whether sibling relationships influenced the outcomes of a sample of adoptive placements in England and Wales that had broken down postorder or were in crisis.

This commentary from the Special Issue on Adoption Breakdown of the journal of Research on Social Work Practice highlights the authors’ conceptual and empirical contributions for understanding the incidence and dynamics of varying types of adoption breakdowns and their impact on adopted youth and their families.

The main goals of this study from the Special Issue on Adoption Breakdown of the journal of Research on Social Work Practice were to determine the incidence of preadoption breakdown in Portugal, describe preadoptive parents’ reasons for ending placement, compare intact/disrupted placements, and identify adoption disruption risk and protective factors.

The topic of interest in this paper is the relationship between children who live in kinship care and their birth parents – through childhood and adulthood.

This report, developed by the Australian Centre for Child Protection (ACCP) in consulation with an Expert Panel, provides an analysis and evaluation of a range of child protection practice frameworks in terms of the way they respond to the values and principles and approach to working with children and families applicable to the continuum of child protection practice.

Launching on International Youth Day, 12 August 2018, the Global NextGen Index uses annual scorecards to evaluate 22 states on their progress to implement alternatives to child immigration detention.

This annual report from the Global Detention Project presents an overview of its efforts and achievements in exposing the practices and impacts of immigration detention 2017, including the detention of migrant children. 

This report provides an overview of alternatives to immigration detention in Africa, including the detention of migrant children.

In this study, the participation of children in the Dutch child protection system (CPS) under the new Youth Act 2015 is critically analyzed.

This article explores the multiple reasons why adoption breakdown occurs and also serves as an introduction to the remaining articles in this special section on adoption breakdown in the journal of Research on Social Work Practice.

This resource from the U.S. National Child Traumatic Stress Network provides tips for current caregivers and others to help address the needs of immigrant and refugee children who have experienced traumatic separation.

This document from the U.S. National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) identifies existing NCTSN resources related to traumatic separation, refugee and immigrant trauma, and best practices in trauma-informed care for refugee and immigrant children and families.

This webinar, from the U.S. National Child Traumatic Stress Network, as part of its Childhood Traumatic Grief e-learning series, describes the impact of traumatic separation, attachment, and attachment disruption on children and adolescents.

This webinar, from the U.S. National Child Traumatic Stress Network, as part of its Childhood Traumatic Grief e-learning series, focuses on helping providers, current caregivers, and others understand and recognize the effects of Traumatic Separation in immigrant children of different ages, understand immigrant children’s prior trauma experiences, and provide practical suggestions for how to support immigrant children who have been separated from parents and siblings.

The purpose of this research was to capture more accurate and detailed information regarding children in various forms of alternative care in Thailand, as well as the legal, policy, management and oversight environment surrounding them in order to plan and programme more strategically in the area of alternative care, and simultaneously contribute to the global evidence base for international findings and recommendations on alternative care.

This guidance document, developed by the Myanmar Responsible Tourism Institute, Hanns Seidel Foundation, and Myanmar's Ministry of Hotels and Tourism, offers guidance to those in the tourism sector on how to protect children in institutions.

This joint publication from Child Trends and the National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families calls attention to the critical need to support immigrant families in the US who have been negatively affected by the trauma of separation, and who will likely continue to experience considerable adversity in the future, even if reunited with their loved ones.

This year’s Data Book presents current data and multiyear trends measuring child wellbeing in the US along four domains: (1) Economic Well-Being, (2) Education, (3) Health and (4) Family and Community.

This paper explores what happens to children separated from their families at the U.S. border with Mexico by examining the nature of the services and programs provided while they are in temporary foster care.

This brief highlights variation among states in child welfare agency spending from federal funding sources.

The aim of this report is to contribute to finding solutions to ending violence against children on the move.

This paper examines the My Life, My Future programme that was set up to boost the emotional wellbeing and resilience of looked-after young people.

The objective of this study is to look at attachment styles of children in foster care and how the foster carer contributes to the reparation of insecure attachment of children in foster care.

In this study, the authors used a two-year Texas foster care entry cohort to examine the extent to which children experience “progress moves”, such as moving to a sibling placement or to live with a relative, versus non-progress moves, such as moving due to risk of abuse.

This comprehensive and authoritative book provides an accessible account of attachment concepts. It traces the pathways of secure and insecure patterns from birth to adulthood, exploring the impact of past experiences of abuse, neglect and separation on children’s behaviour in foster and adoptive families.

This project explores storytelling tools for the collaborative work with persons in vulnerable situation, in this case, a group of unaccompanied minors from Afghanistan living in Umeå, Sweden.

This study aims to develop a model for practice for implementing emergency child protection interventions with children at risk.

This study examines how a child welfare agency implemented an innovative pilot initiative designed to promote timely family reunification.

The objective of this study is to identify distinct patterns of care history by applying sequence analysis methods to longitudinal, administrative data.

This bulletin highlights supports and services for kinship caregivers, training for caseworkers and caregivers, and examples of successful kinship care programs.

This synthesis from the U.S. Children's Bureau summarizes the work and findings of a cluster of demonstration projects aimed at developing replicable models of systemic change and evidence-based models for placing children and youth with families who could provide permanent family connections.