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.

Title Sort descending	Year of Publication
Journal article Treatment of Choice or a Last Resort? A Review of Residential Mental Health Placements for Children and Youth	2002
Report Two Tragedies: Holding Systems Accountable	2014
Journal article Understanding contextual effects on externalizing behaviors in children in out-of-home care: Influence of workers and foster families	2011
Journal article Use of population measures and norms to identify resilient outcomes in young people in care: an exploratory study	2004
Report Voices for Change: Aboriginal Child Welfare in Alberta	2016
Journal article Voices of former foster youth: Supportive relationships in the transition to adulthood	2013
Information Sheet What does the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Report summary say about the Indian Residential School (IRS) system and child welfare?	2015
Report Where Do We Go from Here? Youth Aging Out of Care Special Report	2013
Journal article Who is caring for our most vulnerable children? The motivation to foster in child welfare	2006
Journal article Why Addressing the Over-Representation of First Nations Children in Care Requires New Theoretical Approaches Based on First Nations Ontology	2009