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… welfare services fall under the jurisdiction of provincial and territorial authorities. As a result, each province and territory has different legislation pertaining to child … services on-reserve are funded through Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada and subject to the … Aboriginal child welfare services are provided in accordance with provincial/territorial legislation, as allowed by Section 88 of the Indian Act (1985). Child welfare services fall under the jurisdiction of provincial and territorial authorities. As a result, each province and territory has different legislation pertaining to child protection interventions. For more information …

… Jill K. Fallon, Barbara Trocmé, Nico Fluke, John Children and Youth Services Review, 87, 1-8 Substantiated child maltreatment: Which … study 2013, this paper examines what child, family and environmental characteristics workers paid attention to … The decision to substantiate child maltreatment is one of the many complex decisions workers must make daily. Utilizing data from the Ontario Incidence study 2013, this paper examines what child, family and environmental characteristics workers paid attention to when making the determination that a child had experienced maltreatment. This study adds to the Canadian body of research on factors…

… Cheung, Connie Lwin, Kristen Jenkins, Jennifer M. Children and Youth Services Review, 34(6), pp 1092-1100. Helping youth in care succeed: … placements on academic outcomes of youth between ten and 15 years. Assessment and Action Record (AAR) data … This study examines the influence of out-of-home child welfare placements on academic outcomes of youth between ten and 15 years. Assessment and Action Record (AAR) data (n=687) from the Ontario Looking after Children (OnLAC) were analyzed. The majority (85%) of distinctions in academic success were attributable to individual differences in children. Therefore, the role of the placement plays a…

… Children & Families CYDL @ The Alberta Office of Statistics and Information CYDL Program Overlap Matrix @ PolicyWise for … & Families Les ministères membres de l’Alberta Children and Youth Data Initiative Alberta Children's Services Alberta Community and Social Services Alberta Indigenous Relations Alberta … Liens du CYDL  CYDL @ PolicyWise for Children & Families CYDL @ The Alberta Office of Statistics and Information CYDL Program Overlap Matrix @ PolicyWise for Children & Families Les ministères membres de l’Alberta Children and Youth Data Initiative Alberta Children's Services Alberta Community and Social Services Alberta Indigenous Relations Alberta Education…

This study explored the relationships between demographics factors, domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) status and psychosocial variables among children and youth in the child welfare system in the US. DMST was defined using a legal framework including the recruitment, harbouring, transportation, provision or obtaining minors for the purposes of a commercial sex act or defined as the exchanging…

… fathers used when discussing their parenting capacity and relationship with their child welfare workers.  The … ‘survivor dad’, ‘mothering dad’, ‘denied identity dad’, and ‘citizen dad’.  Authors suggest that each father’s story has the capacity to encompass every identity and is contradictory in some ways.  Nonetheless, the … Fathers of children living in out-of-home care occupy problematic terrain in the child welfare system.  Child welfare literature suggests practitioners construct fathers’ around the ‘good dad’ – ‘bad dad’ binary.  The authors of the current study previously investigated how fathers of children in out-of-home care described their experiences with the child welfare system.  The…

… Dating violence common among CPS-involved youth and a suggestive trauma intervention pathway … 1 … en … Dating violence common among CPS-involved youth and a suggestive trauma intervention pathway … Emotional abuse can be difficult to substantiate and may be considered inherent in more easily substantiated forms of maltreatment, such as physical or sexual abuse. Youth with a history of maltreatment are at heightened risk of dating violence as they learn to adapt to difficult circumstances (e.g., being hurt by loved ones, seeing maltreatment as a response to interpersonal problems). The…

… Secure attachment patterns shown in many teen mothers and their infants … 1 … en … Secure attachment patterns shown in many teen mothers and their infants … Adolescent motherhood has been associated with problems such as low self-efficacy, poor knowledge of child development, increased stress and depression, and insecure and disorganized attachment patterns. Children with insecure or disorganized attachment patterns are at risk for a host of negative outcomes: the former for poor social competence and aggression, the latter for an even higher…

… Family characteristics and caregiver risk factors at play for families chronically … screened-in for neglect … 1 … en … Family characteristics and caregiver risk factors at play for families chronically … This study focuses on chronic neglect cases in child protection services (CPS). Two main objectives were pursued: 1) to identify risk and protective factors related to chronic neglect cases, in contrast to neglect cases that are not chronic; 2) to explore the predictive capacity of a commonly used (in the United States) risk assessment tools regarding chronic neglect. In this study, chronic…