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Welcome to the 2020 volume of Residential Treatment for Children & Youth! The journal seeks to provide 20/20 vision on the field of therapeutic residential care with every issue, by presenting rigorous and relevant research that informs practice as well as practice innovations that can inspire research. The importance of global voices in this conversation cannot be overstated. To that end, the International Work group on Therapeutic Residential Care (TRC) convened a meeting in late 2019 in beautiful Oviedo, Spain. Over 30 researchers, practice leaders, and family advocates assembled from 14 countries to share their work and build a collective understanding of the needs, challenges, and opportunities of the field.

Despite the interest in stepping youth down from more expensive and restrictive placements, there is a paucity of research on transitioning youth from group settings to family settings such as treatment foster care. In this qualitative study, the authors conducted unstructured, individual interviews with treatment foster care parents about the transition process youth experience when moving from group care to treatment foster care. Thematic analysis uncovered a 3-phase transition process: getting acquainted, getting settled, and getting adjusted. Resulting themes provide best practice implications for treatment foster care agency administrators, social workers, and group care staff interested in preparing youth and their caregivers for a smooth transition to family settings.