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… youth in a Canadian setting: Implications for policy and practice 2014 Authors Barker, Brittany Kerr, Thomas … catégorie « pris en charge par les services publics » : « Quand vous étiez enfant, avez-vous déjà vécu dans un … illicites et de vivre dans la rue. Les auteurs recommandent de mettre en place des interventions précoces pour … Les trajectoires à long terme des enfants qui quittent les services publics de protection de l’enfance sont souvent marquées par des difficultés sociales, économiques et émotionnelles, y compris la toxicomanie et la vie dans la rue. La présente étude visait à fournir une estimation de la prévalence des antécédents de prise en charge des jeunes de la rue par les services publics en se basant sur…

… Early specialized foster care, developmental outcomes and home salivary cortisol patterns in prenatally … en … Early specialized foster care, developmental outcomes and home salivary cortisol patterns in prenatally … D’Angiulli and Sullivan examine developmental outcomes in substance exposed infants placed in foster care. The sample was comprised of twenty-two infants under twenty-four months of age, divided into a preterm and a full-term group enrolled in the Vancouver Costal Safe Babies program. The Vancouver Costal Safe Babies program provides services and special programming for foster parents supporting…

… Perceptions of child protection workers, foster parents and children who are Crown Wards Journal article … 1 … en … … Perceptions of child protection workers, foster parents and children who are Crown Wards … Children who are Crown wards have increasing access to biological parents and family members. The literature on the benefits of supervised access is mixed, resulting in no solid conclusion to suggest that access should or should not be supported. The current qualitative study examines the perceptions of child welfare workers, foster parents and children who have supervised access with family…

… tutoring on foster children's academic skills: A randomized trial Journal article … 1 … en … Effects of … tutoring on foster children's academic skills: A randomized trial … This study hypothesized that foster children who were exposed to an individualized tutoring intervention delivered by their foster parents would experience significantly greater gains in reading, spelling, and math than their counterparts on the intervention waitlist. A total of 77 children between six and 13 years from nine different child welfare organizations were randomly assigned to the…

… Promotive and risk factors as concurrent predictors of educational … transitional living Journal article … 1 … en … Promotive and risk factors as concurrent predictors of educational … Extended care and maintenance (ECM) is a transitional living program that provides financial, instrumental, and emotional support to former youth in out-of-home care in the province of Ontario.  Youth who have been discharged from out-of-home care are often ill prepared for the transition, and are more likely than the general population to exhibit behaviours associated with poorer outcomes (…

… Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a solution-focused intervention in … services Journal article … 1 … en … Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a solution-focused intervention in … The purpose of this research was to evaluate the impact on child welfare of introducing solution-focused principles and intervention techniques in the local child protection service of the island of Tenerife, Spain. 152 workers from 34 local child protection teams participated in the study. Goal achievement, parents’ and children’s self-reported well-being, and statutory child welfare measures…

… tutoring on foster children’s academic skills: A randomized trial Journal article … 1 … en … Effects of … tutoring on foster children’s academic skills: A randomized trial … We conducted a randomized effectiveness trial to test the hypothesis that foster children of primary-school age who were exposed to an individualized direct-instruction tutoring intervention delivered by their foster parents would experience significantly greater pre-test to post-test gains in reading and math than would foster children in a wait-list control group. The sample consisted of 77…

For children placed in out-of-home care, experiencing placement instability is associated with deleterious mental health effects. As children in out-of-home care due to sexual abuse are generally found to experience more placement instability than those who never experienced sexual abuse, the main objective was to determine risk factors for their heightened risk of placement instability. A…

… Characteristics of Maltreatment-Related Investigations Involving Older Adolescents Aged 16 to 17 in … of Social Work student, Olive Lyons is a PhD student, and Bryn King is an Assistant Professor at the … during the Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect 2018 (OIS-2018). The OIS-2018 is the sixth …

It is only since July 2007, when Bill 125, the Quebec Youth Protection Act, was amended, that psychological maltreatment in children has been distinctly recognized as an incident to be reported and investigated by child welfare services. For decades, the issue has been of concern to both researchers and practitioners in the province of Quebec and elsewhere throughout North America. The delay is…