out-of-home care

This section contains information related to children and youth who are in the placed in out-of-home care under the legal custody/guardianship of the Director. Out-of-home care includes voluntary care agreements and placements in residential, foster, and community or kinship care.

Province / Territory

Type of Publication

Title	Year Sort ascending
Black Children and Their Families: Out of Home Placement in Ontario in 2023 Clarke, E., Facey, K., Patrick-Drakes, V., Black, T., Fallon, B. & Lefebvre, R.	2026
Kids Count: Decolonizing Approaches to Understanding and Documenting Out-of-Home Care. Summary report: Canadian child welfare administrative data knowledge exchange meeting (2025) McGonegal, C., Denault, K., Esposito, T., Fallon, B. & Trocmé, N.	2025
Out of home placements in Ontario in 2023 Gaudett, R., Black, T., Fallon, B. & Lefebvre, R.	2025
Nothing to Celebrate: The Crisis of Youth Aging out of Care	2025
Parental Access – Short-Term Society Care, The Child Welfare Toolkit, Brief #3 Milne, C., Fallon, B., Wu, A., Ariganello, A., McCarty, E. & Gillanders, A.	2024
Predictors of placement instability for sexually abused children served by child protection services	2024
The Effect of Out-of-Home Placement on the School Engagement of Child-Welfare-Involved Children Landers, A. L., Reichard, K. D., Bellamy, J. L., & Muruthi, B. A.	2024
Rates of out-of-home care among children in Canada: an analysis of national administrative child welfare data.	2024
Health status and missed care among youth in care in British Columbia, Canada: A population study Wang, J. X., Marshall, S. K., Poon, C., & Smith, A.	2024
The Outcomes of Indigenous Youth Aging Out of Care and Exiting Care in Canada Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work & the Association of Native Child and Family Services Agencies of Ontario (ANCFSAO)	2024