Better Understand to Better Serve: a Province-Wide Knowledge Mobilization Initiative in Child Protection. Esposito, T., Trocmé, N., Chabot, M., Coughlin, L., Gaumont, C., & Delaye, A. Child Indicators Research, 9(3):651-661, Child Indicators Research, 2016.
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Child protection is one of the fastest growing service sectors in Canada, yet we know surprisingly little about the effectiveness of these services. This article presents a provincial university-agency knowledge partnership aimed to better under-stand the dynamics of child protection services. For exemplary purposes, the results of a service outcome indicator on out-of-home placement will be reported along with province-wide secondary analyses examining when and for whom out-of-home place-ment is most likely to occur. Rates of reported child abuse and neglect — one of the major risk factors for both childhood and adult mental health problems 1 — have doubled across Canada in the last 5 years and there has been a 21.7 % relative increase in the proportion of children

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