National

Child welfare services fall under the mandate of provincial and territorial governments, including a rapidly expanding system of Aboriginal child welfare authorities. This section contains material related to federal initiatives concerned with child welfare services as well as statistics compiled at the national level.

All Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect reports can be found here.

Title	Year of Publication
Presentation Overview of Child Welfare Governance in Canada and Lessons for Innovation from Outside Canada: Inter-Provincial Lessons on Child Welfare Governance	2002
Other Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect – CIS-2008: Maltreatment Assessment Form	2008
Other Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect – CIS-2008: Guidebook	2008
Other Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect – CIS-2008: Worker Information Form	2008
Other Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect – CIS-2008: Quebec CIS-2008 Worker Assessment Form	2008
Other Briefing Document. Kiskisik Awasisak: Remember the Children. Understanding the Overrepresentation of First Nations Children in the Child Welfare System	2011
Journal article Individual- and relationship-level factors related to better mental health outcomes following child abuse: Results from a nationally representative Canadian sample	2016
Journal article Child abuse and physical health in adulthood	2016
Journal article In whose words? Struggles and strategies of service providers working with immigrant clients with limited language abilities in the violence against women sector and child protection services	2016
Journal article Factors predicting central details in alleged child sexual abuse victims’ disclosure	2016