This blog post from Child Trends presents findings from an evaluation of three models of trauma-informed care in the US child welfare system.

This article examines the practice of child-centered principles in the UK child protection and public child law systems.

This article describes the results of a scoping review to better understand child welfare professionals' and service users' (families' and children's) perspectives on and experiences with family engagement in the child protection system.

This article is an analysis of a State sponsored scheme in Rajasthan, the Palanhar Yojana, which has been successful in demonstrating the success of the scheme as an instrument of family strengthening.

This brief guide from Casey Family Programs lays out strategies for recruiting and retaining tribal foster families for American Indian and Alaska Native children, ensuring that indigenous children can stay in their communities.

The Community Opportunity Map is a tool that allows users to see localized indicators connected to community health and maltreatment prevention.

This study evaluated a university-agency developed competency-based curriculum and field placement on child welfare for BSW and MSW students.

This study examines a program (iHeLP) for substance use reduction in foster youth aging out of care.

This study explored whether trust in caregiver support and communication about experiences with primary caregivers, are associated with Child Welfare System (CWS) youngsters’ depressive symptoms and/or self-harm.

This study examined the prevalence of maltreatment and violent discipline from both the adolescents’ and parents’ perspectives.

Through qualitative interviews with local child protection workers, this paper indicates that traditional values assist legislative intervention and that significant potential exists in better integration of Indigenous approaches into practice.

This article reports the findings of a multi-country study of medical professionals' perceptions and evaluations of children  in three Eastern European countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova).

This article examines the challenges faced by unaccompanied and separated children in South Africa.

This study asked three primary questions: 1) What is the nature of crisis children encounter on the street? 2) What are the ranges of informal caregiving practices? 3) What social network characteristics facilitate or complicate caregiving?

This study explored the scholastic performance of orphaned learners aged eight to ten from ten public primary schools in Mankweng Circuit of Limpopo Province, South Africa, utilizing quantitative and qualitative methods that included semi structured interviews, observations and questionnaires.

This study utilizes self-report data from one kinship navigator federal demonstration project, which used a randomized control trial, to examine demographic characteristics for grandmothers under and over 55 years of age, whether grandmother caregivers (≥55 years) improve family resilience, social support, and caregiver self-efficacy, and which interventions improved outcomes for grandmothers (≥55 years).

This article discusses emerging trends in deinstitutionalisation and alternative care avenues nationally and internationally and examines the Miracle Foundation's evolution from a residential care provider to a family-based care and family strengthening organization.

This study examines the factors associated with guardianship breakdown for children who exited foster care to kinship guardianship in California between 2003 and 2010.

Using a sample of 916 children (aged 5–18) of migrants and the life course perspective, this article examines the impact of parental migration on children's health.

This study examined visual recognition memory and executive functioning (spatial working memory, spatial planning, rule learning, and attention shifting) in 12-year-olds who participated in the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, a randomized controlled trial of foster care for institutionally reared children.

This study examined communication between 51 transition-aged foster youth and their social workers as related to perceived relationship quality and satisfaction with care receipt/provision.

This brief presents key takeaway messages from a mixed methods study examining how substance use affects child welfare systems across the country.

Child welfare agencies are tasked with investigating allegations of child maltreatment and intervening when necessary. Researchers are turning to the field of predictive analytics to optimize data analysis and data-driven decision making. This paper examines the utility of statistical algorithms in predictive analytics.

This systematic review sought to address the lack of knowledge as to what creates setbacks and rejections during young people's transition out of care and how the youth may overcome influences of their foster care history and their experiences while in care.

This paper examines permanence and long-term foster care in England.

This paper provides an overview of neglect as a phenomenon and explores some of these challenges for and to practice.

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

Using household survey data collected between September 2011 and December 2012 from Moldova and Georgia, this paper measures and compares the multidimensional well-being of children with and without parents abroad.

The aim of this paper is to describe findings from a survey which identified barriers and facilitators to collaboration between child welfare and adult mental health service providers.

The aim of this study was to investigate 60 foster parents' acceptance, commitment and awareness of influence to their early placed foster children at 2 years, as well as to investigate the association between these three concepts and the foster children's social-emotional functioning (externalizing, internalizing, dysregulation and competence) at 2 and 3 years of age.

The goals of the present study are to examine the association between childhood adversity and adult functioning among youth aging out-of-care, and to explore how attributes of their social support networks mediate this association.

A recent costing study investigating the social burden and economic impact of violence against children in South Africa found notable reductions to mental and physical health outcomes in the population if children were prevented from experiencing violence, neglect and witnessing family violence.

This study used data from a large representative sample of child welfare investigations to answer the following research questions: 1) Do children with maltreatment histories and academic difficulties differ from those with maltreatment histories but no academic difficulties; and 2) Does the presence of academic difficulties influence ongoing child welfare services.

This brief documents the evaluation of an online training for Citizen Review Panel (CRP) members in one southeastern state in the United States.

This article aims to international adoption in Georgia. It is intended as a source of ideas for professionals or authority involved in adoption.

This dissertation was an ethnographic narrative study tracking eight young women who were “aging out” or forced to leave their orphanage in Peru, where most of them had spent a majority of their lives. The study examined the way in which a collaborative art community could support the participants as they narrated their lives over a 16-month period of time through photojournaling and social media outlets.

Through the case of a young Sri Lankan woman who arrived in Denmark as an ‘unaccompanied asylum-seeking minor’ and spent five years within the Danish asylum system, this article explores how she experienced moving through different legal categories and the institutional settings associated with them.

This chapter explores the factors that are hidden behind the disproportionate numbers and considers the mental health impact of child removal on Black children, youth, and families in Ontario.

The present study is aimed at evaluating changes of foster care adolescents' self-efficacy and psychological functioning during the solution-focused self-efficacy enhancement group intervention for adolescents.

This study examined the extent to which (a) maltreatment type and (b) foster care placement were associated with the educational attainment of 337 maltreated adolescents.

This cross-sectional descriptive study explores the behavioral and emotional problems in institutionalized children in India. 

This paper presents the results from a Youth Lead Project on the voices and participation of children in state care in Ontario Canada.

This pilot project sought to investigate unaccompanied children’s experiences of care, and caring for others, as they navigate the labyrinthine asylum-welfare nexus in the UK.

This paper presents findings from research with 101 kinship carers to gain a better understanding of how family violence was impacting on children and families in kinship care in Victoria, Australia.

This paper presents findings from two studies, in England (2012) and Ireland (2013), which explored experiences of unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) in foster care.

This study aims to give voice to parents and gather their views about contact visits in foster care.

This report presents the findings of a UK national Enquiry into the role of the social worker in adoption with a focus on ethics and human rights.

This study examined the associations between exposure to armed conflict, perceived support, work experience, needing help, and post-traumatic distress among Israeli social workers in foster care agencies based on Conservation of Resources theory.

This quantitative study contributes knowledge regarding the attitude of professionals towards positive parenting and child participation.

This Resource Guide was developed to support service providers in their work with parents, caregivers, and their children to prevent child abuse and neglect and promote child and family well-being.

This paper explores the diversity of U.S. state policies and practices for teens in foster care in two potentially competing areas: teens’ need for a permanent connection to a family (either their birth family, or an adoptive or guardian family), and teens’ developmental and practical needs in transitioning to legal adulthood, independence, and self-sufficiency.

In order to strengthen policymakers’ and humanitarian actors’ responses in countries of transit and destination, this study was designed to shed light on young people’s decision-making and preparedness levels, the mechanisms shaping their migration trajectories, and their expectations on the way to Europe.

This document aims to provide an overview of the scope of activities of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in relation to the protection of unaccompanied migrant children and support for this group.

This report from UNICEF shines light on the dangers of the Central Mediterranean Migration Route for children and the particular vulnerability of unaccompanied migrant minors traveling along this route.

This paper is the sixth of the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016).

This paper is the fifth of the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016).

This paper is the fourth of the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016). It examines specificities affecting children on the nove and other children affected by migration related to migrants stranded in distress.

This paper is the third of the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016).

This paper is the second of the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016).

This paper is the first of the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016).

These series of 6 papers are the second edition of the child rights bridging papers for the Civil Society Days of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 to 10 December 2016).

Drawing on data from the Wales Adoption Study, this paper examines the prevalence and profiles of care leavers amongst birth parents whose children were placed for adoption.

The study presented in this article analyzed the life stories of 16 care leavers in Israel.

This paper describes the blended learning theory and practcal training designs from the Fairstart Foundaton, afer ten years of partnerships that have trained the caregivers of some 30.000 placed children and youth.

This chapter raises questions about the use of unregulated websites and the commodification of children that seek forever families, how far adoption in the digital age will be further redefined remains to be seen.

This six-part video series provides an overview of the United States National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) and the NYTD Review, a federal review conducted by the Children’s Bureau to assess how states collect and report data on youth transitioning out of foster care.

This Child Soldiers World Index from Child Soldiers International is the global authority on the recruitment and use of children by state armed forces and non-state armed groups.

The objective of this study was to assess the impact of ‘Parenting for Lifelong Health: Sinovuyo Teen’, a parenting programme for adolescents in low-income and middle-income countries, on abuse and parenting practices.

This report summarises the findings from the 611 children and young people who completed the Bright Spots’ ‘Your Life, Your Care’ survey on their experiences in care.

This rapid review from Coram Voice contributes to the understanding of care leavers’ experiences and is also the first stage in a project to develop a survey of care leavers’ subjective well-being, according to young people’s own evaluations of how they feel about their lives.

This literature review highlights the voices of looked after children in the UK from existing research, on their journey through the care system.

In this webinar, hosted by Rise Learning Network, Deep Savarni, Founder & Director of Praajak Development Society shares his experience in establishing the Child Protection Committees as a means to realize effective participation of children in monitoring care services in government-run child care institutions in India.

This paper advocates for use of the life course perspective as a guiding research paradigm when investigating the educational experiences of adult care leavers.

Based on primary and secondary source materials, this article traces the evolution of the US social work field's response to the needs of unaccompanied immigrant and refugee youth during the past two centuries.

The present research aimed to describe and compare three new second-level intervention models to improve the care of unaccompanied migrant minors in Italy.

This study contributes to a body of scholarship on ‘localising children’s rights’ by presenting findings from an ethnographic case study of an institution for HIV-infected/affected children in Rajasthan, India.

This study answers the following question: “How does the case-specific context influence the practitioners' decision-making process regarding matching in family foster care?”

This article is a case study and analysis of the death of a foster carer in Scotland at the hands of the child for whom she was caring.

Using national and international law, court observations, and field experiences, this paper argues a case for deinstitutionalization of children in India, by empowering the families, thereby protecting children's right to a family and preventing abuse and exploitation.

The current study presents findings from a survey of child welfare caseworkers' experiences with reunifications and focuses on practices and key factors at the casework practice and at the system-environment level to assist in achieving successful reunification.

This study analyzes semistructured interviews of 15 foster parents on how foster parents perceive the sibling relationships of youth in foster care and ways to promote these relationships.

This systematic review examines the comparative effectiveness of foster and kinship care interventions for trauma.

This document explores the state of the use of predictive analytics in child welfare by conducting an environmental scan of child welfare agencies, academia, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit vendors in the United States.

During this webinar on Thursday, May 11th, 2017, the second in the series of webinars organized by the Initiative for Child Rights in the Global Compacts, two experts Mike Dottridge and Professor Jacqueline Bhabha outlined their current work on one of the key outputs of the initiative: a working document entitled “Child Rights in the Global Compact”.

During this webinar on Wednesday, March 22, 2017, Save the Children’s Daniela Reale and Terres des Hommes’ Ignacio Packer provided an update on the Initiative for Child Rights in the Global Compacts and its work to date with a view of exploring how its work can be catalytic to a broader action for the support of children’s rights in the upcoming national, regional and global processes.

This roadmap to ending the detention of children in immigration from the Initiative for Child Rights in the Global Compacts outlines the commitments, examples of practice, reference documents, and guidelines for each stage of the strategy from June 2019 to June 2025.

This four-page document is a synthesis of the working document entitled “Child Rights in the Global Compacts: Recommendations for protecting, promoting and implementing the human rights of children on the move in the proposed Global Compacts,” drafted by the Steering Committee of the Initiative for Child Rights in the Global Compacts.

The authors of this study conducted focus groups with 100 parents from 15 countries and 13 interviews with pediatricians to gain insight into how the current political environment in the United States is affecting the daily lives, well-being, and health of immigrant families, including their children. 

This report aims to address some common and key themes emerging from a questionnaire and in-person meeting to discuss the role of the social service workforce in the inclusion of migrant children and young people.

In this sample of 160 retained specially-trained public child welfare workers and former students, sources of stress and satisfaction were examined three and five years after the conclusion of the students’ work obligation.

This report presents the results of a consultation - organised by Plan International, Save the Children and World Vision International - which surveyed children in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh from refugee communities (who identify themselves as Rohingya) and children from host communities. 

In order to better serve youth trafficking victims, this study developed a Human Trafficking Screening Tool (HTST) and pretested it with 617 runaway and homeless youth and child welfare-involved youth. 

This report provides essential data and information on educational challenges faced by nearly 50 million uprooted children around the world.

This joint report from UNICEF and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) explores in detail survey data from the Central and Eastern Mediterranean Sea routes to Europe, focusing on adolescents and youth on the move from Africa and Asia.

This report highlights initiatives underway that work towards addressing the care and protection of refugee, migrant and displaced children – initiatives that can be replicated around the world. 

In this call to action, UNICEF, UNHCR, IOM, Eurostat and OECD show how crucial data are to understanding the patterns of global migration and developing policies to support vulnerable groups like children. 

This thesis paper employed qualitative methods to capture the online interaction of undergraduate volunteers as part of an undergraduate-student mentorship program. This program was developed to provide mentorship and tutoring for at-risk-youth at a foster care institution.

This paper examines the longer term outcomes of young people who experienced out of home care (OHC) as children, in Britain, Germany and Finland, countries characterised by different welfare regimes.