out-of-home care

This section contains information related to children and youth who are in the placed in out-of-home care under the legal custody/guardianship of the Director. Out-of-home care includes voluntary care agreements and placements in residential, foster, and community or kinship care.

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Health status and missed care among youth in care in British Columbia, Canada: A population study

Wang, J. X., Marshall, S. K., Poon, C., & Smith, A.

2024
Parental Access – Short-Term Society Care, The Child Welfare Toolkit, Brief #3

Milne, C., Fallon, B., Wu, A., Ariganello, A., McCarty, E. & Gillanders, A.

2024
Predictors of placement instability for sexually abused children served by child protection services 2024
Rates of out-of-home care among children in Canada: an analysis of national administrative child welfare data. 2024
The Outcomes of Indigenous Youth Aging Out of Care and Exiting Care in Canada

Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work & the Association of Native Child and Family Services Agencies of Ontario (ANCFSAO)

This work is done in collaboration with or funded by Making the Shift, a member of the Networks of Centres of Excellence Canada Program. Making the Shift is funded by the Government of Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence program. The opinions and interpretations in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Government of Canada.

2024
What is Out-of-Home Care?

Trocmé, N., Sullivan, S. & Lefebvre, R.

2024
The Efficacy of Birth Alerts: Fact Sheet

Sistovaris, M., Sansone, G., Fallon, B. & Miller, S.

2022
The Impact of Placement Instability on Infants in Foster Care

Fallon, B., Sansone, G., Vandermorris, A. 

2022
Disparities in Investigation Characteristics by Age in Maltreatment-Related Investigations Involving First Nations and Non-Indigenous Children in Canada in 2019

Joh-Carnella, Nicolette
Fallon, Barbara
Saint-Girons, Marie

2021
Exploring the health care utilization of children and youth in the care of child welfare: a retrospective matched cohort study

Breneol, S.

Rose, H.

Brown, M.

Andreou, P.

Bishop, A.

Mitchell, C. 

2021