Catholic Relief Services is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Senior Technical Advisor, Research and Learning to provide technical assistance and quality assurance supporting 4Children for research and learning activities in 4Children’s program designs and workplans, including 4Children’s Keeping Children in Healthy and Protective Families (KCHPF) Project. 

Catholic Relief Services is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Senior Technical Advisor, Household Economic Strengthening to provide technical assistance supporting 4Children program design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.  

Building on his successful and popular courses on systematic reviews in a wide variety of settings, Professor Mike Clarke will lead this 1-day Evidence Aid course to place systematic reviews in the context of disasters and humanitarian aid.

This report explores ways for public agencies to ensure that children receive the care they need by enlisting more volunteers to step forward as foster parents and by encouraging the extraordinary individuals who have already answered the call to continue their commitment to care. The report identifies three major themes for engaging and empowering foster parents: ensuring quality caregiving for children; forging strong relationships; and, finding and keeping more amazing caregivers.

Nova Scotia will be the only province that does not allow birth mothers and adult adopted children to obtain information about one another. 

New Canadian child welfare law allows children to have a say in their care.

This study underscores the fact that visible minority families receiving child protective services are a far from homogeneous group and that there are a number of effective methods that can be used with them.

This study used the 2008 Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect data to determine the representation of child maltreatment investigations for Asian-Canadian versus White-Canadian children involved in the child welfare system.

This study tests an intervention to improve child welfare outcomes for substance abusing families, specifically the probability of families achieving a stable (at least 12 months) reunification. 

This research examines the long-term stability of legally permanent adoptive and guardianship homes for former foster youth.