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… Director of Children and Family Services Annual Report 2012/13 Report Canadian CW … of Nunavut. Iqaluit, NU: 10 pages. Director of Children and Family Services Annual Report 2012/13 children_and_family_services_annual_report_2012-13_0.pdf (PDF, 327MB) …
… Patterns of service use, individual and contextual risk factors, and resilience among adolescents using multiple psychosocial … has examined the relationship between resilience, risk, and the service use patterns of adolescents with complex … Background: Very little research has examined the relationship between resilience, risk, and the service use patterns of adolescents with complex needs who use multiple formal and mandated services such as child welfare, mental health, juvenile justice, and special educational supports. This article reports on a study of 497 adolescents in Atlantic Canada who were known to have used at least 2 of…
… Factors associated with co-occurrence of spousal and parental violence: Quebec population study Journal … research 2007 Lévesque, Sylvie Clément, Marie-Ève Chamberland, Claire The objective of this study was to determine the … violence: 2) those in which there is parental violence; and 3) those in which there is both spousal and parental … The objective of this study was to determine the differences between 1) families in which there is spousal violence: 2) those in which there is parental violence; and 3) those in which there is both spousal and parental violence. It also sought to document the factors associated with the three groups and develop an explanatory model for the type of violence in relation to the characteristics of…
… Preventing rapid repeat pregnancy and promoting positive parenting among young mothers in … mothers in foster care face considerable challenges above and beyond that of their non-foster care peers. Child … in the selection of evidence-informed programs, models, and strategies that address the unique risk factors and … Young mothers in foster care face considerable challenges above and beyond that of their non-foster care peers. Child welfare workers have few resources to guide them in the selection of evidence-informed programs, models, and strategies that address the unique risk factors and needs of youth in foster care who are at risk for rapid repeat pregnancy and inadequate parenting practices. Workers…
… Intergenerational transmission of child abuse and neglect: Real or detection bias? Journal article 2015 … individuals with documented histories of childhood abuse and neglect and matched comparisons and a subset of their children. The … The literature has been contradictory regarding whether parents who were abused as children have a greater tendency to abuse their own children. A prospective 30-year follow-up study interviewed individuals with documented histories of childhood abuse and neglect and matched comparisons and a subset of their children. The study assessed maltreatment based on child protective service (CPS) agency…
… of family behavior therapy in concurrent child neglect and drug abuse Journal article 2014 Donohue, Brad Azrin, … evaluated in mothers referred from CPS for child neglect and drug abuse utilizing a controlled experimental design. … Method: 72 mothers evidencing drug abuse or dependence and child neglect were randomly assigned to Family Behavior … Objective: Approximately 50% of Child Protective Service (CPS) referrals abuse drugs; yet, existing treatment studies in this population have been limited to case examinations. Therefore, a family-based behavioral therapy was evaluated in mothers referred from CPS for child neglect and drug abuse utilizing a controlled experimental design. Method: 72 mothers evidencing drug abuse or dependence…
… in child maltreatment: The influence of county poverty and population density Journal article 2015 Maguire-Jack, … A great deal of research has proliferated aimed at understanding whether systematic biases or differential rates of … disparity are compared across the United States and examined in relation to rates of poverty disparity as … There are documented disparities in the rates at which black children come into contact with the child welfare system in the United States compared to white children. A great deal of research has proliferated aimed at understanding whether systematic biases or differential rates of risk among different groups drive these disparities (Drake et al., 2011). In the current study, county rates of…
… Neighborhood-level social processes and substantiated cases of child maltreatment Journal … 2016 Molnar, Beth E. Goerge, Robert M. Gilsanz, Paola Hill, Andrea Subramanian, S. V. Holton, John K. Duncan, Dustin T. … data, proportions of neighborhoods on public assistance, and crime data) that were linked across clusters of … Child maltreatment is a preventable public health problem. Research has demonstrated that neighborhood structural factors (e.g. poverty, crime) can influence the proportion of a neighborhood's children who are victims of maltreatment. A newer strategy is the identification of potentially modifiable social processes at the neighborhood level that can also influence maltreatment. Toward this end,…
… of Alberta: Human Services - Systems to Deliver Child and Family Services to Indigenous Children in Alberta Report … of Human Services is responsible for providing child and family services in Alberta. There is an important problem facing the department and the system as it stands today. Indigenous children in … The Department of Human Services is responsible for providing child and family services in Alberta. There is an important problem facing the department and the system as it stands today. Indigenous children in Alberta experience several less favourable results than non-Indigenous children. This audit was conducted to examine the systems and processes the department uses to deliver child and…
… What remedies have been suggested to the Tribunal and what are the arguments against them? Information Sheet … material Canadian CW research 2015 Currie, Vanessa Sinha, Vandna This Information Sheet presents a list of remedies to … child welfare services provided to First Nations children and families on-reserve are flawed, inequitable and … This Information Sheet presents a list of remedies to be considered by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on First Nations Child Welfare should the Tribunal find that the complaint against the government of Canada, alleging that child welfare services provided to First Nations children and families on-reserve are flawed, inequitable and discriminatory, is substantiated. The remedies suggested by…