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
Defining ‘reasonable force’: Does it advance child protection?	Durrant, Joan E. Fallon, Barbara Lefebvre, Rachael Allan, Kate	2017
Difficult but close relationships: Children’s perspectives on relationships with their mothers in the context of domestic violence	Lapierre, Simon Côté, Isabelle Lambert, Amélie Buetti, David Lavergne, Chantal Damant, Dominique Couturier, Vanessa	2017
First births to maltreated adolescent girls: Differences associated with spending time in foster care	King, B.	2017
Gender as a predictor of posttraumatic stress symptoms and externalizing behavior problems in sexually abused children	Gauthier-Duchesne, Amélie Hébert, Martine Daspe, Marie-Ève	2017
Honouring Jordan's Principle: Obstacles to accessing equitable health and social services for First Nations children with special healthcare needs living in Pinaymootang, Manitoba	Vives, Luna Sinha, Vandna Burnet, Eric Lach, Lucyna	2017
Is the families first home visiting program effective in reducing child maltreatment and improving child development?	Chartier, Mariette J Brownell, Marni D Isaac, Michael R Chateau, Dan Nickel, Nathan C Katz, Alan Sarkar, Joykrishna Hu, Milton Taylor, Carole	2017
Pathways linking childhood maltreatment and adolescent sexual risk behaviors: The role of attachment security	Thibodeau, Marie-Eve Lavoie, Francine Hébert, Martine Blais, Martin	2017
Physical and mental health of sexually abused youth: Gender comparisons from a matched-control cohort study	Daigneault, Isabelle Vézina-Gagnon, Pascale Bourgeois, Catherine Esposito, Tonino Hébert, Martine	2017
Psychopharmacotherapy in children placed in group homes and residential centres in Canada: Psychopathological portrait of children receiving psychotropic medications and educators' perception of treatment	Desjardins, Julie Lafortune, Denis Cyr, Francine	2017
Role specialization and service integration in child welfare: Does organizure influence the decision to refer to supportive services?	Smith, Carrie Fluke, John D Fallon, Barbara Mishna, Faye Pierce, Barbara Decker	2017