Families & Communities

This section contains material on socioeconomic and other family and community factors related to children and families involved with child welfare services.


Title Authors Year Type of Publication
OIS-2008: Examination of Investigations Referred to Child Welfare Authorities by Schools

Ma, Jennifer
Van Wert, Melissa
Smith, Carrie
Fallon, Barbara

 2012 Information sheet
Characteristics of Young Parents Investigated and Opened for Ongoing Services in Child Welfare

Fallon, Barbara
Ma, Jennifer
Black, Tara
Wekerle, Christine

 2011 Journal article
Access visits: Perceptions of child protection workers, foster parents and children who are Crown Wards

Morrison, Janet
Mishna, Faye
Cook, Charlene
Aitken, Gail

 2011 Journal article
Hand-in-Hand: A Review of First Nations Child Welfare in New Brunswick

Richard, Bernard

 2010 Report
Developmental and Cultural Assets and Resilient Outcomes in First Nations Young People in Care: An Initial Test of an Explanatory Model

Filbert, Katharine
Flynn, Robert J.

 2010 Journal article
Manitoba children affected by parental alcohol abuse and FASD: Health care costs

Gough, Pamela
Fuchs, Don

 2010 Information sheet
Exploring mediating factors in the association between parental psychological distress and psychosocial maladjustment in adolescence

Roustit, Christelle
Campoy, Eric
Chaix, Basile
Chauvin, Pierre

 2010 Journal article
Your policies our children: Messages from refugee parents to child welfare workers and policy makers

Dumbrill, Gary C.

 2009 Journal article
More Than a Playmate, Less than a Co-Parent: Fathers in the Canadian BSW Curriculum

Walmsley, Christopher
Strega, Susan
Brown, Leslie
Dominelli, Lena
Callahan, Marilyn

 2009 Journal article
Working with Me, Working at Me: Fathers' Narratives of Child Welfare

Strega, Susan
Brown, Leslie
Callahan, Marilyn
Dominelli, Lena
Walmsley, Christopher

 2009 Journal article