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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Prevalence and risk factors of child neglect in the general population
Clément,;Marie-Ève, Bérubé, Annie, Chamberland, Claire
 2016
Research Brief: Identifying and Responding to Intimate Partner Violence Against Women
Wathen, C. Nadine; MacMillan, Harriet L.; MacGregor, Jennifer
 2016
Child maltreatment and intimate partner violence among Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians
Brownridge, Douglas A.;, Taillieu, Tamara, Afifi, Tracie, Chan, Ko Ling, Emery, Clifton, Lavoie, Josee, Elgar, Frank
 2016
Establishing a good relationship with foster parents after issues with their performance: Experiences of foster parent resource workers
Brown, Jason, Serbinski, Sarah, Anderson, Landy, Gerrits, Julie
 2016
In whose words? Struggles and strategies of service providers working with immigrant clients with limited language abilities in the violence against women sector and child protection services
Alaggia, Ramona, Maiter, Sarah, Jenney, Angelique
 2016
Factors predicting central details in alleged child sexual abuse victims’ disclosure
Alonzo-Proulx, Agnès, Cyr, Mireille
 2016
Individual- and relationship-level factors related to better mental health outcomes following child abuse: Results from a nationally representative Canadian sample
Afifi, Tracie O., MacMilan, Harriet L.;, Taillieu, Tamara, Turner, Sarah, Cheung, Kristine, Sareen, Jitender;, Boyle, Michael H.;
 2016
Child abuse and physical health in adulthood
Afifi, Tracie O., MacMillan, Harriet L.;, Boyle, Michael, Cheung, Kristene, Taillieu, Tamara, Turner, Sarah, Sareen, Jitender
 2016
Delineating disproportionality and disparity of Asian-Canadian versus White-Canadian households in the child welfare system
Lee, Barbara; Fuller-Thomson, Esme; Trocmé, Nico; Fallon, Barbara; Black, Tara
 2016
A prospective study of the impact of child maltreatment and friend support on psychological distress trajectory: From adolescence to emerging adulthood
Dion, Jacinthe; Matte-Gagné, Célia; Daigneault, Isabelle; Blackburn, Marie-Eve; Hébert, Martine; McDuff, Pierre; Auclair, Julie; Veillette, Suzanne; Perron, Michel
 2016