Postdoctoral Fellow Contact Information McGill University 3506 University Street, Suite 106 Montreal, Quebec H3A2A7 melissa.vanwert@mail.mcgill.ca http://www.mcgill.ca/crcf/people/postdoctoral-fellows/mwert Publications Province / Territory - Any - Alberta British Columbia United States Prince Edward Island International Manitoba National New Brunswick Newfoundland and Labrador Northwest Territories Nova Scotia Nunavut Ontario Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon Keywords - Any - addictions adolescents adoption adverse childhood experiences advocacy allegations attachment behaviour problems blended families bullying Canadian Human Rights Tribunal child abuse & neglect child development child protection child welfare system children's rights clinical assessment co-occurrence community-based research corporal punishment Covid-19 criminal justice system crown wards custody disputes CYDL data collection dating violence death differential response disability disclosure divorce early intervention emotional maltreatment epidemiology ethnocultural evaluation evidence-based practice exposure to intimate partner violence families & communities family group conferencing family preservation family therapy FASD fathers First Nations FNCIS foster care funding models gender grandparents home visiting homelessness housing immigrant families incidence study Indigenous child welfare infants injury intergenerational intervention & prevention intimate partner violence Inuit investigation Jordan's Principle justice kinship care knowledge transfer Latinx legislation LGBTQ+ literature review longitudinal studies Loving Our Children maltreatment mediation mental health meta-analysis Métis mothers neglect neurobiological out-of-home care outcomes overrepresentation parenting parents permanency planning physical abuse physical health police policy policy & legislation poverty program evaluation protective factors PTSD race racism reconciliation recurrence research methodologies residential care resilience resource families reunification review risk assessment risk factors rural & remote communities schools & education self-harm sexual abuse sexual behaviour social exclusion social support substance misuse substantiation suicide systematic reviews training transition to adulthood trauma victimization well-being worker characteristics worker-client relationship young children young parents youth youth justice Type of Publication - Any - Book chapter Book Journal article Presentation Report Information Sheet Video Other Title Year Information Sheet A Further Look at Food Insecurity among Ontario’s Child Welfare Involved Population 2017 Information Sheet Academic Difficulties among Ontario’s Child Welfare Involved Population 2017 Information Sheet Child Protection Investigations Involving Adolescents in Ontario 2017 Information Sheet Educational Neglect in Ontario 2017 Journal article Examining the relationship between economic hardship and child maltreatment using data from the Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2013 (OIS-2013) 2017 Information Sheet Poverty and Ontario’s Child Welfare Involved Population 2017 Journal article Which maltreated children are at greatest risk of aggressive and criminal behavior? An examination of maltreatment dimensions and cumulative risk 2017 Information Sheet Child Maltreatment-Related Service Decisions by Ethno-Racial Categories in Ontario in 2013 2016 Report Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect - 2013 (OIS-2013) 2015 Journal article A profile of exposure to intimate partner violence investigations in the Canadian child welfare system: An examination using the 2008 Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS-2008) 2013 Topics of Research research methodologies child welfare system behaviour problems adolescents child abuse & neglect Quebec