The current study reexamined a kinship caregiver assessment using data from a study conducted at the Children and Family Research Center (CFRC).

This study extends our understanding of use of failure to protect (FTP), a sub-type of neglect, by examining who workers substantiate for FTP, in what context, and the justifications they use.

The first aim of this study was to examine differences in the socio-emotional functioning of adopted and institution-reared children in Chile. The second aim of this study was to examine the influence of adoption related variables on the psychological adjustment of adopted children.

For this study, a review of research literature on the epidemiology of vicarious traumatization among child welfare professionals was conducted.

This brochure from UNICEF presents the results from UNICEF’s Socioeconomic Impact Survey of COVID-19 Response.

This brief describes some of the "compelling evidence that the foundations of lifelong health" are built in the early years of life, "with increasing evidence of the importance of the prenatal period and first few years after birth."

The authors of this study applied a human rights framework using the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to understand what extent children’s basic human rights were being upheld in institutional vs. community- or family-based care settings in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya.

The case study is part of a UNICEF global initiative, undertaken in collaboration with Global Affairs Canada to document national child protection frameworks in five core programming countries: Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Senegal and the United Republic of Tanzania.

The COVID‐19 pandemic is a ‘perfect storm’ for the mental health of young people, because of exposure to known risk factors for psychopathology and lack of support from the infrastructures that are normally in place to ensure safety and provide support.

This policy brief explores violence against children in residential care institutions (RCIs) in Uganda and calls for regular supervision and monitoring of existing RCIs as well as promotion of de-institutionalization of alternative child care in Uganda.