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 Sort ascending
An Exploratory Typology for Understanding Family-Relationship Issues in Kinship-Care Placements	Dorval, A., Hélie, S., & Poirier, M.-A.	2024
What is Child Physical Abuse?	Trocmé, N., Sullivan, S. & Lefebvre, R.	2024
Indigenous foster children living in private households: Rates and sociodemographic characteristics of foster children and their households	Hahmann, T., Lee, H., & Godin, S.	2024
What is Out-of-Home Care?	Trocmé, N., Sullivan, S. & Lefebvre, R.	2024
The more we change the more we stay the same: Canadian child welfare systems’ response to child well-being	Fallon, B., Joh-Carnella, N., Houston, E., Livingston, E., & Trocmé, N.	2023
Child protection services and youth experiencing homelessness: Findings of the 2019 national youth homelessness survey in Canada		2023
Summary report: Canadian child welfare administrative data knowledge exchange meeting (2023)	Esposito, T., Fallon, B., Trocmé, N., Caldwell, J., Saint-Girons, M., & Précourt, S.	2023
Associations between exposure to adverse childhood experiences and biological aging: Evidence from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	Mian, O. Belsky, D. W. Cohen, A. A. Anderson, L. N. Gonzalez, A. Ma, J. Sloboda, D. M. Bowdish, D. M. Verschoor, C. P.	2022
Interventions for the Prevention of Family Violence in Indigenous Populations Policy Brief	Sistovaris, M., Fallon, B., & Sansone, G.	2022
The Child Welfare Toolkit. The "Without Notice Removal". Brief #2	Cheryl Milne & Barbara Fallon (Co-Investigators), Alina Valachi, David Baldridge, Alison Gillanders, Imran Kamal	2022