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
Information Sheet CIS-2008 Major Findings Supplementary Tables: Out-of-Home Placement by Primary Substantiated Maltreatment and Risk	2012
Information Sheet CIS-2008 Major Findings Supplementary Tables: Physical Harm Requiring Medical Treatment in Substantiated Maltreatment Investigations	2012
Information Sheet CIS-2008 Major Findings Supplementary Tables: Previous Case Openings by Primary Substantiated Maltreatment and Risk	2012
Information Sheet CIS-2008 Major Findings Supplementary Tables: Source(s) of Referral by Primary Substantiated Maltreatment and Risk	2012
Journal article Coping motives as moderators of the relationship between emotional distress and alcohol problems in a sample of adolescents involved with child welfare	2012
Report Distinguishing between poor/dysfunctional parenting and child emotional maltreatment	2012
Report Early childhood development: Adverse experiences and developmental health	2012
Journal article Effects of individual direct-instruction tutoring on foster children's academic skills: A randomized trial	2012
Report Invited response to Concluding Observations for the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Canada’s 19th and 20th reports on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)	2012
Journal article Is the cluster risk model of parental adversities better than the cumulative risk model as an indicator of childhood physical abuse?: Findings from two representative community surveys	2012