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	Authors	Year
Summary report: Canadian child welfare administrative data knowledge exchange meeting (2025)	McGonegal, C., Denault, K., Esposito, T., Fallon, B. & Trocmé, N.	2025
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
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
Rates of out-of-home care among children in Canada: an analysis of national administrative child welfare data.		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
What is Out-of-Home Care?	Trocmé, N., Sullivan, S. & Lefebvre, R.	2024
The Efficacy of Birth Alerts: Fact Sheet	Sistovaris, M., Sansone, G., Fallon, B. & Miller, S.	2022
The Impact of Placement Instability on Infants in Foster Care	Fallon, B., Sansone, G., Vandermorris, A.	2022
Disparities in Investigation Characteristics by Age in Maltreatment-Related Investigations Involving First Nations and Non-Indigenous Children in Canada in 2019	Joh-Carnella, Nicolette Fallon, Barbara Saint-Girons, Marie	2021