Since 2017, The Chronicle of Social Change has been working to build the first public resource on foster care capacity in the United States, through the Who Cares project which collects data directly from each state, and combines it with specially obtained federal reports. This executive summary provides and overview of methodology and findings of the Who Cares project for 2019.

This report from t he Williams Institute is a collection of working papers focused on understanding what we know and what we need to better understand about the lives and outcomes of system-involved youth who are both LGBTQ and racial/ethnic minorities, including those involved in the US child welfare system.

The main finding of this report from Disability Rights International (DRI) is that Bulgaria has replaced a system of large, old orphanages with newer, smaller buildings that are still operating as institutions.

This report reviews the government of Bangladesh’s progress to create the minimum conditions in law and policy needed to end violence against children.

This Review is aimed at examining the high rates of Aboriginal children and young people in out-of-home care (OOHC) in New South Wales (NSW), Australia and the implementation of the Aboriginal Child Placement Principle (ACPP) in this jurisdiction.

With this guide, the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children aims to support governments and civil society working to end violence against children through effective prohibition of corporal punishment.

This chapter from the book Education in Out-of-Home Care aims to (1) provide an overview of educational background and educational expectations of adolescents aging out of care in Brazil; (2) examine associations between educational background and extracurricular activity and placement characteristics; and (3) discuss the specificities of education in care for adolescents in Brazil as well as its similarities with other countries.

This chapter from the book Education in Out-of-Home Care reports on a qualitative doctoral study that investigated the experiences of New Zealand care leavers who went to university.

In this chapter from the book Education in Out-of-Home Care the authors explore their journeys to and through university and doctoral studies, drawing in the experiences of other care leavers who have gone to university and care leavers they have encountered through their research into this topic.

This chapter from the book Education in Out-of-Home Care describes trends in the secondary and postsecondary educational attainment of care-experienced young people in the California Youth Transitions to Adulthood Study (CalYOUTH), support they received to pursue their education, and the obstacles they have encountered along the way.