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Les personnes effectuant de la recherche ou écrivant sur les services offerts aux enfants et aux familles se concentrent habituellement sur les besoins des enfants pris en charge. Quelques-uns élargissent leur portée pour inclure les familles des enfants, tandis que d’autres incorporent les systèmes sociaux ayant un impact sur ces usagers. Toutefois, la recherche, les écrits et les politiques…

… Child physical and sexual abuse in a community sample of young adults: … fois à un jeune âge. Ontario … 0 … fr … Child physical and sexual abuse in a community sample of young adults: … La maltraitance envers les enfants est de plus en plus reconnue comme étant un problème de santé publique majeur, cependant, il y a très peu d’information à l’échelle de la collectivité sur les déterminants de ce problème au Canada. Les chercheurs de la présente étude ont effectué une analyse des données secondaires pour déterminer la prévalence et les facteurs de risque de violence physique et…

This paper was written to assist policy makers and practitioners in dealing with the difficult issues that arise in making appropriate post-separation parenting arrangements in cases where there are family violence issues. There has been a movement in Canada and elsewhere to cease using the traditional legal concepts of “custody” and “access,” which tend to promote a “winner” and “loser”…

… Placement stability in kinship and non-kin foster care: A Canadian study Journal article … 1 … en … Placement stability in kinship and non-kin foster care: A Canadian study … This study compared the stability of kinship and non-kin foster placements of one child welfare organization in Ontario. Administrative data of children who were removed from their parent’s care between 2008 and 2010 were analyzed. The total sample included 880 foster families and 389 kin families. Findings indicate that within the first six months of being placed in out-of-home care, on average…

For over two decades, federal policies and case practices in child welfare have shifted to prioritize legal permanence for children in foster care, and increasing numbers of children have been placed in permanent adoptive or guardianship homes. Despite this change, little research has examined the long-term stability of legally permanent adoptive and guardianship homes for former foster youth.…

The use of kinship families to provide foster care has been increasing due to changes in legislation and the hope that it will provide better quality placements, but there has been little consideration of differential outcomes based on sub-types of kin. Using data from one Ontario, Canada, child protection agency we compared the frequency and stability of placements with maternal versus paternal…

… Replication of the KEEP foster and kinship parent training program for youth with … Journal article … 1 … en … Replication of the KEEP foster and kinship parent training program for youth with … This article presents findings from Maryland KEEP, a replication of KEEP (Keeping Foster and Kinship Parents Trained and Supported), a foster and kinship parent training intervention. We examined child behavior change, changes in caregiver parenting style, and permanency and placement stability at baseline and then after the KEEP intervention. The KEEP intervention was provided to 65 foster and…

The study of resilience and its associated factors is highly applicable to the child welfare population as children living in out-of-home care have often experienced much adversity and are particularly vulnerable to the development of problems in numerous domains of functioning. The use of qualitative research in this area is scarce, and the majority of such studies have been based on the U.K. or…

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…

Collaboration between child welfare and adult mental health service providers is important to address parental risk factors that may affect child wellbeing. The aim of this paper is to describe findings from a survey which identified barriers and facilitators to collaboration between these two sectors. A semi-structured instrument, adapted from Frederico et al. (2014), was used for data…