Foster Care

A Foster Home is a private home approved by child welfare services for the placement of children, and includes kinship care. Group and residential care are excluded.

Title Authors Year Type of Publication
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
Understanding contextual effects on externalizing behaviors in children in out-of-home care: Influence of workers and foster families

Cheung, Connie
Goodman, Deborah
Leckie, George
Jenkins, Jennifer M.

 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
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
The case for enhanced educational supports for children in public care: An integrative literature review of the educational pathway of children in care

Snow, Kim

 2009 Journal article
Benefits of Cultural Matching in Foster Care

Brown, Jason D.
George, Natalie
Sintzel, Jennifer
St. Arnault, David

 2009 Journal article
Confidence to foster across cultures: Caregiver perspectives

Brown, Jason D.
Sintzel, Jennifer
St. Arnault, David
George, Natalie

 2009 Journal article
Child and Family Services Statistics June 2009

Saskatchewan Ministry of Social Services

 2009 Report