Principal Investigators: Nico Trocm茅 and Tonino Esposito
Funding Source: RBC Children鈥檚 Services Research & Training Program
Period: 2010-2019
The project entitled, "Gestion fond茅e sur les indicateurs de suivi Clinique," is a knowledge mobilization initiative between 91丝瓜视频鈥檚 Centre for Research on Children and Families (CRCF) and sixteen child protection jurisdictions across Qu茅bec, Canada.聽 The project draws its origins from a partnership between (CRCF) and Batshaw Youth and Families Centres. The proposed partnership was developed in order to (a) better understand the dynamics of child protection services and to (b) support the organization鈥檚 capacity to bring together questions of evidence to the forefront of management and service delivery decisions.聽 In spring 2009, three additional child protection jurisdictions joined the project: (1) le Centre jeunesse de Chaudi猫re-Appalaches; (2) le Centre jeunesse de Montr茅al 鈥� Institut universitaire and ; (3)聽 le Centre jeunesse de Qu茅bec 鈥� Institut universitaire, along with l鈥橝ssociation des Centre Jeunesse du Qu茅bec (ACJQ). Two working groups were established which led to the development of a harmonization strategy in order to refine the treatment of the clinical administrative data and create a dashboard reflecting 聽shared concerns across youth protection jurisdictions. We are currently in Phase II of the project which include all 16 child protection jurisdictions in Qu茅bec. Data extraction, treatment and analysis is complete and in Fall 2011, the 91丝瓜视频 and ACJQ research team has began a presentation series across all 16 child protection jurisdictions with the following specific objectives:聽 1) describe the service trajectories of children in the Qu茅bec child protection system; 2) describe variations in service trajectories over time and between child protection jurisdictions in Qu茅bec; and 3) describe the integration of service statistics to inform child protection service planning and policy development. The rate of (a) recurrence of maltreatment (b) placement in out-of-home care (c) placement instability (d) reunification (e) youth criminality and (f) family court appearances is reported for each child protection jurisdiction and the province using three longitudinal cohorts ranging from 34,339 to 99,278 maltreated children in Qu茅bec.聽