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… Characteristics of Children and Families who Receive Ongoing Child Welfare Services … d'information … 1 … en … Characteristics of Children and Families who Receive Ongoing Child Welfare Services … The Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect, 2008 (OIS-2008) is the fourth provincial study to examine the incidence of reported child maltreatment and the characteristics of children and families investigated by child welfare authorities in Ontario. This fact sheet examines the characteristics of children and families whose cases remain open for ongoing child welfare services…

… Ongoing Child Welfare Services and Referrals to Services by Primary Form of Substantiated … d'information … 1 … en … Ongoing Child Welfare Services and Referrals to Services by Primary Form of Substantiated … The Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect, 2013 (OIS-2013) is the fifth provincial study to examine the incidence of reported child maltreatment and the characteristics of children and families investigated by child welfare authorities in Ontario. This Information Sheet examines the estimated number of investigations that are transferred to ongoing child welfare services and…

… Examining the relationship between economic hardship and child maltreatment using data from the Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2013 (OIS-2013) Article de journaux … 1 … en … Examining the relationship between economic hardship and child maltreatment using data from the Ontario Incidence … There is strong evidence that poverty and economic disadvantage are associated with child maltreatment; however, research in this area is underdeveloped in Canada. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between economic hardship and maltreatment for families and children identified to the Ontario child protection system for a maltreatment concern. Secondary analyses of the…

… Do good intentions beget good policy? A review of child protection policies to address intimate … M. Weaver-Dunlop, Gillian Walsh, Christine A. Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 29, Issue 12, pp. 1469-1486 Do good … This article, written by researchers in Alberta, reviews the research evidence on the effects on children of exposure intimate partner violence, and provides an analysis of examples of child protection policies and legislation from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. Legislation or policy decisions that define child exposure to violence in the home as maltreated may further…

The data collected for the CIS 2008 were weighted to derive national annual incidence estimates by applying a composite regionalization weight and an annualization weight. The regionalization weight was developed to estimate the number of investigations completed within the three-month data collection period by child welfare organizations across Canada. The regionalization weight includes three…

… Sexual abuse and preschoolers: Forensic details in regard of question types Article de journaux … 1 … en … Sexual abuse and preschoolers: Forensic details in regard of question … The present study looks into the association between the types of questions used by interviewers and the number of details obtained among preschoolers during an investigative interview. An innovative aspect of this study concerns the analysis of question subtypes (eg. open-ended directive and closed-ended). Analysis of variance were carried out on 55 NICHD interview protocols conducted among…

… Poverty and Ontario’s Child Welfare Involved Population Feuillet d'information … 1 … en … Poverty and Ontario’s Child Welfare Involved Population … The Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect, 2013 (OIS-2013) is the fifth provincial study to examine the incidence of reported child maltreatment and the characteristics of children and families investigated by child welfare authorities in Ontario. This Information Sheet examines several indicators of socioeconomic hardship to provide a profile of poverty among the children,…

… Injuries caused by child abuse and neglect Feuillet d'information … 1 … en … Injuries caused by child abuse and neglect … Tragic cases involving abused and neglected children who are severely injured or killed draw significant media attention. The scope and severity of this public health concern, however, remain poorly understood. Few studies have documented rates of injuries in cases of child maltreatment investigated by child protection authorities. The 1998 Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and…

… Profile of Children and Youth in the Downtown Eastside Report Rapport … 1 … en … Profile of Children and Youth in the Downtown Eastside Report … In 2015, the Representative for Children and Youth released Paige’s Story: Abuse, Indifference and a Young Life Discarded. This report examines the life and death of Paige, an Aboriginal young adult from British Columbia, who had involvement with the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) from birth until she aged out of care and who died from a drug overdose at the age of 19 in…

This information sheet presents an overview of the current structure of First Nations child welfare in New Brunswick as it was in 2011. It builds on work done for the First Nations component of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (FNCIS-2008), a collaboration between university researchers and representatives of major Aboriginal child welfare organizations, to analyze…