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.

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Type of Publication

Title	Year Sort ascending
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
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
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
The evolving relationship between casework skills, engagement, and positive case outcomes in child protection: A structural equation model Damiani-Taraba, Gissele; Dumbrill, Gary; Gladstone, James; Koster, Andrew; Leslie, Bruce; Charles, Michelle	2017
Childhood sexual abuse, sexual motives, and adolescent sexual risk-taking among males and females receiving child welfare services Wekerle, Christine, Goldstein, Abby L., Tanaka, Masako, Tonmyr, Lil	2017
Defining ‘reasonable force’: Does it advance child protection? Durrant, Joan E.; Fallon, Barbara; Lefebvre, Rachael; Allan, Kate	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
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
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
Childhood sexual abuse and substance abuse: A gender paradox? Tonmyr, Lil, Shields, Margot	2017