This study contributes to the growing child protection placement literature by providing the first Canadian provincial longitudinal study examining when and for whom initial out-of-home placement is most likely to occur. Anonymized clinical-administrative child protection data were merged with...

This is the first Canadian longitudinal study to use province-wide clinical-administrative data to explore the factors most associated with changing out of home placements. Clinical-administrative child protection data were merged with Canadian Census data for the province of Québec and the...

This is the first Canadian longitudinal study to use province-wide clinical administrative data to explore when family reunification is most likely to occur and for whom. Clinical administrative child protection data were merged with the 2006 Canadian Census data for the province of Québec; the...