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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.

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Better understand to better serve: A province-wide knowledge mobilization initiative in child protection

Esposito, Tonino
Trocmé, Nico
Chabot, Martin
Coughlin, Lorry
Gaumont, Chloé
Delaye, Ashleigh

 2016
Delineating disproportionality and disparity of Asian-Canadian versus White-Canadian households in the child welfare system

Lee, Barbara
Fuller-Thomson, Esme
Trocmé, Nico
Fallon, Barbara
Black, Tara

 2016
Child abuse and physical health in adulthood Afifi, Tracie O. MacMillan, Harriet L.  Boyle, Michael Cheung, Kristene Taillieu, Tamara Turner, Sarah Sareen, Jitender 2016
Individual- and relationship-level factors related to better mental health outcomes following child abuse: Results from a nationally representative Canadian sample Afifi, Tracie O. MacMilan, Harriet L.  Taillieu, Tamara Turner, Sarah Cheung, Kristine Sareen, Jitender  Boyle, Michael H.  2016
Factors predicting central details in alleged child sexual abuse victims’ disclosure Alonzo-Proulx, AgnèsCyr, Mireille 2016
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 Alaggia, Ramona Maiter, Sarah Jenney, Angelique 2016
Establishing a good relationship with foster parents after issues with their performance: Experiences of foster parent resource workers Brown, Jason Serbinski, Sarah Anderson, Landy Gerrits, Julie 2016
Child maltreatment and intimate partner violence among Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians Brownridge, Douglas A. Taillieu, TamaraAfifi, TracieChan, Ko LingEmery, CliftonLavoie, JoseeElgar, Frank 2016
Prevalence and risk factors of child neglect in the general population Clément, Marie-Ève Bérubé, Annie Chamberland, Claire 2016
A culturally relevant measure of client satisfaction in child welfare services Mundy, CrystalNeufeld, Amanda N. Wells, Susan J 2016