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… An examination of trends in child sexual abuse investigations in Ontario over time 2019 Auteurs Fallon, … 2004, 2012; Jones et al., 2001). Discrepancies in contexts and measures complicate comparing CSA rates across … 20 years. Participants and setting: The OIS uses a file review methodology; information is collected directly from … Background: Child sexual abuse (CSA) rates have been declining since the 1990s (Dunne et al., 2003; Finkelhor & Jones, 2004, 2012; Jones et al., 2001). Discrepancies in contexts and measures complicate comparing CSA rates across jurisdictions and studies, and there is limited literature about trends in CSA in Canada. Objective: Using data from the Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child…

Alberta Human Services has developed a five-point plan for improving Alberta’s child intervention system. The Child Intervention Roundtable is being held as part of that plan. The Roundtable will consider issues surrounding investigations and data on deaths of Albertan children.Human Services has expressed the goal of establishing a more transparent and accountable reporting system. Such a system…

While principal-agency theory has greatly facilitated our understanding of governance and management in the hollow state, close examinations of how system designs affect agency problems has been rare. The purpose of this study is to explicitly investigate the effects of different contract configurations on agent shirking, which is a common problem in third-party service delivery arrangements.…

… Child welfare involvement and contexts of poverty: The role of parental adversities, social networks, and social services Article de journaux … 1 … en … Child welfare involvement and contexts of poverty: The role of parental adversities, … Research documents a link between poverty and child welfare involvement, but the nature of this relationship is unclear. By providing in-depth accounts of situations leading to child welfare involvement, parents' perspectives can enrich our understanding of how poverty matters for child welfare involvement. Based on in-depth interviews with 40 poor parents previously investigated for child…

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Les nourrissons de moins d'un an sont vulnérables en cas de maltraitance, ce qui pourrait se traduire par des problèmes de santé physique et mentale. La présente étude utilise des données de l'Étude canadienne sur l'incidence des signalements de cas de violence et de négligence envers les enfants 2003 (ECI-2003). L'objectif est d'examiner les enquêtes concernant les enfants de moins d'un an (N=…

… Out-of-home placement and regional variations in poverty and health and social services spending: A multilevel analysis Article … This paper examines the extent to which regional variations in poverty and health and social services spending impact the risk of placement, after controlling for individual-level risk factors and regional latent differences in delivery of child protection services. Clinical administrative child protection data were merged with income and health and social services spending data for the province…

… societal-level factors associated with child physical abuse and neglect Article de journaux … 1 … en … A cross-national … societal-level factors associated with child physical abuse and neglect … Children around the world experience violence at the hands of their caregivers at alarming rates. A recent review estimates that a minimum of 50% of children in Asia, Africa, and North America experienced severe physical violence by caregivers in the past year, with large variations between countries. Identifying modifiable country-level factors driving these geographic variations has great…

… workers: The roles of professional organizational culture and coping strategies Article de journaux … 1 … en … The … workers: The roles of professional organizational culture and coping strategies … The purpose of the current study was to investigate how professional organizational culture and coping strategies (control coping and avoidance coping) related to workers' intentions to remain employed in child welfare. With a sample of 234 frontline workers employed in Department of Human Services-Division of Family and Children Services (DHS-DFCS) offices in a state in the Southeastern region…

… Children discharged from kin and non-kin foster homes: Do the risks of foster care … Article de journaux … 1 … en … Children discharged from kin and non-kin foster homes: Do the risks of foster care … This study investigates whether the type of pre-discharge placement, kinship versus non-kinship foster care, has a net impact on children's likelihood of re-entering substitute care after controlling for possible selection biases through the use of regression adjustment and propensity score matching (PSM). Children in kin and non-kin foster care are compared on their rates of foster care re-entry…