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.

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Do youth in out-of-home care receive recommended mental health and educational services following screening evaluations?

Petrenko, C. L., Culhane, S. E., Garrido, E. F., & Taussig, H. N.

2011
Joining formative evaluation with translational science to assess an EBI in foster care: Examining social-emotional well-being and placement stability

Akin, B. A., Byers, K. D., Lloyd, M. H., & McDonald, T. P. 

2015
Standards for Staffed Children's Residential Services Provided Under the Child, Family and Community Service Act 1998

Standards for Staffed Children's Residential Services Committee: 

  • Federation of Child and Family Services of British Columbia
  • Child and Youth Care Association of British Columbia
  • Federation of British Columbia Youth In Care Networks
  • British Columbia Federation of Foster Parent Associations
  • Provincial Association of Residential Community Alternatives
1998
Newfoundland and Labrador Adoption Act

The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador

1999
Parent Mutual Aid Organizations in Child Welfare Demonstration Project: A Report of Outcomes

Cameron, Gary
Birnie-Lefcovitch, Shelly

2000
Évaluation d'implantation et d'impact du projet d'intervention massive à l'enfance (PRIME) : Rapport final

Dagenais, Christian
Bastien, Marie-France
Bégin, Jean
Tourigny, Marc

2000
Children and youth in care in British Columbia: An epidemiological review of mortality

Office of the Provincial Health Officer

2001
The Social Construction of Resilience Among Problem Youth In Out-Of-Home Placement: A Study of Health-Enhancing Deviance

Ungar, Michael

2001
Supporting young people's transition from government care research project

Rutman, Deborah
Barlow, April
Hubberstey, Carol
Alusik, Daniela
Brown, Erinn

2001
Health status of children and youth in care in British Columbia: What do the mortality data show?

Office of the Provincial Health Officer

2001