Title Young People in Out-of-Home Care : Findings from the Ontario Looking After Children Project / Robert J. Flynn, Meagan Miller, Tessa Bell, Barbara Greenberg, and Cynthia Vincent

Published Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (360 pages) Series Health and society Contents The Convergence of Two Developmental Frameworks: Looking After Children and Child Well-Being -- Developmental Assets -- Physical Development and Health -- Education -- An Educational Snapshot of a Young Person in Care -- Cultural and Personal Identity -- Family and Social Relationships -- Assessing Young People's Mental Health from their Level of Well-Being and Type of Residential Placement -- Norms for the Canadian Casey Life Skills Assessment -- Lessons from the Ontario Looking after Children Project for Improving the Outcomes and Well-Being of Young People in Care Summary "Child abuse is typically considered to be the most severe form of early adversity to which children or adolescents can be subjected. Maltreated young people seen as at the highest risk are likely to be placed in out-of-home care for their own protection, including foster care, kinship care, group care, or independent living. Young People in Out-of-Home Care is based on more than two decades of applied research and evaluation, conducted since 2000, as part of the ongoing Ontario Looking After Children (OnLAC) Project. The OnLAC project was based on a new child welfare approach known as Looking After Children, developed in the UK in the late 1980s and 1990s, to reform and improve services to vulnerable young people who were being looked after in out-of-home care. When launched in 2000, the OnLAC project "Canadianized" the UK approach and partnered with the Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies (OACAS) and some 20 children's aid societies in the province. Since 2007, the Ontario government has mandated that local societies use the OnLAC method to plan services and monitor outcomes. Since 2000, the OnLAC project has gathered information on results and well-being from interviews with more than 35,000 young people in care (including Indigenous, Black, and francophone young people), their caregivers, and their child welfare workers. Young People in Out-of-Home Care presents major project findings and lessons that promise to improve young people's education, development, health, social and family relationships, mental health, and preparation for transition to community life."-- Provided by publisher Analysis Children OnLAC caregivers child welfare children's aid education foster care health kinship care mental health out of home care society Notes Description based on print version record Subject Child welfare -- Ontario -- Evaluation Foster children -- Services for -- Ontario -- Evaluation Foster children -- Ontario -- Social conditions -- Evaluation Foster home care -- Ontario -- Evaluation HEALTH & FITNESS / Children's Health. Foster home care -- Evaluation Child welfare -- Evaluation Ontario Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book Author Vincent, Cynthia (Research associate), author. Greenberg, Barbara (Research assistant), author. Bell, Tessa, author Miller, Meagan (Research associate), author. ISBN 0776638033 9780776638034

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