Out-of-Home Care

This section contains information related to children and youth who are in the placed in out-of-home care under the legal custody/guardianship of the Director. Out-of-home care includes voluntary care agreements and placements in residential, foster, and community or kinship care.


Title Authors Year Type of Publication
OIS-2008: Rates of Out-of-Home Placement in Substantiated Maltreatment Investigations

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

 2012 Information sheet
Current Practices and Barriers to the Provision of Post-Placement Support: A Pilot Study from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

McKay, Katherine
Ross, Lori E.

 2011 Journal article
Inuit Child Welfare and Family Support: Policies, Programs and Strategies

Rae, Lisa

 2011 Report
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
Children and Youth in Out-of‑Home Care in Canada

Mulcahy, Meghan
Trocmé, Nico

 2010 Information sheet
Early specialized foster care, developmental outcomes and home salivary cortisol patterns in prenatally substance-exposed infants

D'Angiulli, Amedeo
Sullivan, Richard

 2010 Journal article
Group home and residential treatment placements in child welfare: Analyzing the 2003 Child Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect

DuRoss, Christine
Fallon, Barbara
Black, Tara
Allan, Kate

 2010 Information sheet
Bound by the Clock: The Voices of Manitoba Youth with FASD Leaving Care

Fuchs, Don
Burnside, Linda
Reinink, Amy
Marchenski. Shelagh

 2010 Report
Support needs of Aboriginal foster parents

Ivanova, Viktoria
Brown, Jason

 2010 Journal article
Manufacturing Ghost Fathers: The Paradox of Father Presence and Absence in Child Welfare

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

 2009 Journal article