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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Overview Presentation. 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
Trauma Experiences, Maltreatment-Related Impairments, and Resilience Among Child Welfare Youth in Residential Care

Collin-Vézina, Delphine
Coleman, Kim
Milne, Lise
Sell, Jody
Daigneault, Isabelle

Aboriginal Children. Canada must do better: Today and tomorrow. Special report submitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

Canadian Council of Child and Youth Advocates

2011
Head injury secondary to suspected child maltreatment: Results of a prospective Canadian national surveillance program

Bennett, Susan
Ward, Susan
Moreau, Katherine
Fortin, Gilles
King, Jim
MacKay, Morag
Plint, Amy

2011
Caring for children from the same culture: Challenges for foster parents

Brown, Jason D.
St. Arnault, David
Sintzel, Jennifer
George, Natalie

2011
Shifting definitions of emotional maltreatment: An analysis child welfare investigation laws and practices in Canada

Trocmé, Nico
Fallon,Barbara
MacLaurin, Bruce
Chamberland, Claire
Chabot, Martin
Esposito, Tonino

2011
Emotional maltreatment in Canada: Prevalence, reporting and child welfare responses

Chamberland, Claire
Fallon, Barbara
Black, Tara
Trocmé, Nico

2011
Is childhood physical abuse associated with peptic ulcer disease? Findings from a population-based study

Fuller-Thomson, Esme
Bottoms, Jennifer
Brennenstuhl, Sarah
Hurd, Marion

2011
Evaluation of a newborn screen for predicting out-of-home placement

Brownell, Marni D.
Chartier, Mariette
Santos, Robert
Au, Wendy
Roos, Noralou P.
Girard, Darlene

2011
Untangling risk of maltreatment from events of maltreatment: An analysis of the 2008 Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS-2008)

Fallon, Barbara
Trocmé, Nico
MacLaurin, Bruce
Sunha, Vandna
Black, Tara

2011