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	Authors	Year
Associations of personality with alcohol use behaviour and alcohol problems in adolescents receiving child welfare services	Stewart, Sherry Heather McGonnell, Melissa Wekerle, Christine Adlaf, Ed	2011
Briefing Document. Kiskisik Awasisak: Remember the Children. Understanding the Overrepresentation of First Nations Children in the Child Welfare System	Sinha, Vandna Trocmé, Nico Fallon, Barbara MacLaurin, Bruce Fast, Elizabeth Prokop, Shelley Thomas et al.	2011
Caring for children from the same culture: Challenges for foster parents	Brown, Jason D. St. Arnault, David Sintzel, Jennifer George, Natalie	2011
Characteristics of Young Parents Investigated and Opened for Ongoing Services in Child Welfare	Fallon, Barbara Ma, Jennifer Black, Tara Wekerle, Christine	2011
Child Maltreatment Investigations Involving Parents with Cognitive Impairments in Canada	McConnell, David Feldman, Maurice Aunos, Marjorie Prasad, Narasimha	2011
Child welfare involvement of mothers with mental health issues	Westad, Callie McConnell, David	2011
Children adopted from China: Attachment security two years later	Cohen, Nancy J. Farnia, Fataneh	2011
Children under 15, registered Indian status and total population, for Canada, the provinces and territories, 2006	First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada	2011
Determinants of maltreatment substantiation in a sample of infants involved with the child welfare system	Williams, Gabriela Tonmyr, Lil Jack, Susan M. Fallon, Barbara MacMillan, Harriet L.	2011
Diagnostic coding of abuse related fractures at two children's emergency departments	Somji, Zeeshanefatema Plint, Amy McGahern, Candice Al-Saleh, Ahmed Boutis, Kathy	2011