This study describes natural mentoring among preadolescent children placed in out-of-home care and examines the association between natural mentoring and demographic, maltreatment, placement, and psychosocial characteristics.

This six-part video series from the BBC highlights the discrimination and challenges that poor women of color face in the child welfare system in New York City. 

This paper from the U.S. National Academy of Medicine argues the importance of investment in early childhood development and serves as a call to action “to close the gap between what is known and what is done to support the development of children globally and, in turn, sustainable progress for communities and nations.”

This paper reports on a research capacity building initiative designed to address the lack of research and evidence on the efficacy of child welfare services in Canada.

A new US federal rule, to be enacted this December, will require judges presiding over foster and adoption proceedings in every state in the country to ask about the child’s status as a tribal member, according the article.

This editorial from the Toronto Star highlights the racial disproportionality in Toronto’s child welfare system and in child welfare systems across Canada. 

This consultancy project consists of a 3 month period to further research and develop plans for a youth-led media campaign in the UK, USA, and Australia.

This study investigated the widely-used but under-researched program for training resource parents (i.e., foster, adoptive, or kinship parents) known as preservice PRIDE (Parent Resources for Information, Development and Education). The sample consisted of 174 participants in Ontario, Canada.

This study sought to answer whether children – who have alternative caregiving options - will still express attachment to their maltreating parent. 

This study documents the rates at which children involved with foster care [in the United States] enter the juvenile justice system (crossover or dually involved), and the factors associated with this risk.