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Objective: This study uses in‐depth interviews and ecomapping techniques to explore LGBTQ youths' relationships with child welfare professionals and other affiliated, nonparental adults (CWP/ANPAs) who play a primary role in providing them with care and services. Background: Supportive relationships with caring adults are essential in reducing minority stress impacts and improving outcomes for LGBTQ foster youth, who often face victimization affecting their access to support. However, limited knowledge exists regarding LGBTQ foster youths' relationships with CWP/ANPAs and the role of relational support in their identity disclosure and access to appropriate care and services. Method: Twenty‐one LGBTQ foster youth, aged 17 to 21, participated in interviews and constructed visual diagrams of their relationships with CWP/ANPAs. Data were analyzed using directed content analysis. Results: Findings highlight the need for CWP/ANPAs to improve relationships with LGBTQ foster youth. These improvements can be achieved through engagement in attitudes and practices that facilitate relationship development (e.g., empathy, respect, affirmation, knowledge, responsiveness), and reduce existing barriers (e.g., neglect, discrimination, mistreatment, lack of knowledge, fear of rejection). Conclusions: To provide better support LGBTQ foster youth, CWP/ANPAs and child welfare agencies should increase their knowledge and skills, be more responsive to LGBTQ youths' specific needs, and implement inclusive policies and practice standards. Implications: CWP/ANPAs and agencies working with LGBTQ foster youth must develop an awareness and understanding of the strengths, needs, and challenges of LGBTQ foster youth to reduce stigma, bias, and discrimination in the foster care system and engage in affirming actions and practices that create a more inclusive environment for this population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States each endorse a national objective to protect the safety and well-being of children and preserve families, while dually seeking to re-establish self-governance within indigenous communities. This review presents a collective overview of indigenous peoples’ experience with child protection systems and evaluates the different national approaches used to improve child welfare practice and re-establish the sovereignty of indigenous populations within each of these countries. Key strategies for improving child protection, developing cross-cultural partnerships, and increasing the effectiveness of child welfare service delivery within indigenous communities are also provided. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

(1) Determine the rate of completion of glucose screening for diabetes in the postpartum period for women who had gestational diabetes mellitus, and (2) compare the rates of follow up glucose screening among women who had A1GDM or A2GDM 4-12 weeks postoartum. A retrospective comparative study. An academic hospital in an urban community. One hundred and seventy-five women with gestational diabetes who gave birth between January 2012 and September 2015. The electronic medical record was reviewed to confirm diagnosis of gestational diabetes at 24–28 weeks and completion of 4–12 weeks postpartum glucose screening. All consecutive women meeting eligibility criteria were included. The rate of postpartum glucose screening was 38.9%. There were 22 (31.0%) women with A1GDM and 46 (44.2%) women with A2GDM who had postpartum glucose screening (χ2 = 3.12, p = 0.08). The type of GDM, did not affect the rate of follow-up for postpartum glucose screening. Strategies need to be developed to improve postpartum screening rates in women with gestational diabetes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]