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In this opinion piece for CBC News, Elizabeth Wall-Wieler discusses findings from a recent study which "followed the children of 5,942 teenage mothers in Manitoba up to their second birthday to see how many were placed into care."
In this article, differential individual and family needs are explored in a sample of children whose case has been substantiated by Child Protection Services.
This study examined data from five cycles over twenty years of Ontario Incidence Studies (-1993, -1998, -2003, -2008, -2013) to provide a profile of child welfare workers.
This study was conducted to determine if adolescent mothers who were in the care of child protection services (CPS) when they gave birth to their first child are more likely to have that child taken into CPS care before the child’s second birthday than adolescent mothers who were not in the care of CPS.
The Child and Youth Care Association of British Columbia, Canada is hosting the 20th National and 12th Triennial International Child and Youth Care Conference in Vancouver, Canada 1-4 May 2018.
The government of British Columbia in Canada has "introduced legislation that will give Indigenous communities greater involvement in child-welfare decisions," according to this article from Global News.
This study examines whether mothers who had a child taken into care by child protection services have higher mortality rates compared with rates seen in their biological sisters who did not have a child taken into care.
A group of Maori — Indigenous Peoples of New Zealand — have arrived in Manitoba, Canada to meet with Indigenous leaders there and share their best practices in reducing the number of Indigenous children in foster care, according to this article from CBC News.
This study used data from a large representative sample of child welfare investigations to answer the following research questions: 1) Do children with maltreatment histories and academic difficulties differ from those with maltreatment histories but no academic difficulties; and 2) Does the presence of academic difficulties influence ongoing child welfare services.
This paper presents the results from a Youth Lead Project on the voices and participation of children in state care in Ontario Canada.