The aim of this study was to ask youth themselves how they experience the impact of traumas prior to living in a foster family.

This study estimated the impact of state and individual-level risk and protective factors on adverse 19-year-old outcomes among a cohort of U.S. transition age youth.

This study tests whether an expansion of the Danish aftercare scheme in 2001 affects later outcomes of foster care alumni.

As part of a broader action research project aiming to prevent both harmful sexual behaviour carried out by children and young people and child sexual exploitation (CSE) in out‐of‐home care, four focus groups were undertaken with 17 workers at three Victorian residential houses in 2017.

This study explores understandings of children and childhood among 21 social workers from five child protection services in Chile.

This chapter aims to review how the CRC has been integrated into Taiwan’s laws and social practices since its promulgation in 1989.

This chapter will help the reader to understand the design and outcomes of the foster care system in the USA.

This chapter from Former Foster Youth in Postsecondary Education focuses on the transition point when youth begin to age out of care and may move into postsecondary education.

Este llamado pide a los gobiernos nacionales y locales, en coordinación con socios nacionales y globales, fortalecer la fuerza laboral del servicio social para mejorar los resultados de protección, salud y bienestar para niños, niñas, jóvenes, familias y comunidades como se describe en los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible.

The purpose of this toolkit is to guide participatory, national level analyses of the social service workforce.