Child Trends

This comprehensive child welfare resource provides state and national data on child maltreatment, foster care, kinship caregiving, permanency, and older youth in care. The data are essential to help policymakers... (Read more)

For many children and youth—especially those from communities of color—interactions with police and law enforcement officers constitute an “adverse police contact,” which we define as a source of physical and... (Read more)

Child Trends’ updated comprehensive resource of state-level data for understanding child welfare provides state and national data on child maltreatment, foster care, kinship caregiving, and adoption. This resource compiles critical... (Read more)

This resource from Child Trends outlines lessons learned in jurisdictions such as New York City that were early adopters of evidence-based prevention services. This brief includes details of two evidence-based... (Read more)

This comprehensive child welfare resource from Child Trends provides state and national data on child maltreatment , foster care , kinship caregiving , and adoption from foster care. The data... (Read more)

Child Trends has released a new fact sheet, Ways to Promote Children’s Resilience to the COVID-19 Pandemic, which focuses on protective factors that help enhance healthy development and help children... (Read more)

The following guidance, recommendations, and resources are provided by child trauma experts at Child Trends and the Child Trauma Training Center at the University of Massachusetts. The Center is housed... (Read more)

The federal Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018 (Family First Act) has changed the landscape of federal child welfare funding in significant ways to support children to remain safely... (Read more)

The Family First Act includes provisions allowing states to use federal Title IV-E funding to support older youth in foster care to live in family settings, safely care for their... (Read more)

The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (an office of ACF) released a brief on home visiting. This brief focuses on the state of data availability and data quality as... (Read more)