Abstract
There is a surprising dearth of information about the services provided to the children and families being reported to Canadian child welfare authorities, little research on the efficacy of child welfare services in Canada, and limited evidence of new policies and programs designed to address these changes. This paper reports on a research capacity building initiative designed to address some of these issues. By fostering mutual co-operation and sharing of intellectual leadership, the Building Research Capacity initiative allows partners to innovate, build institutional capacity and mobilize research knowledge in accessible ways. The model rests on the assumption that by placing the university’s research infrastructure at the service of community agencies, robust research partnerships are developed, access to agency-based research is significantly enhanced and community agencies make better use of research findings which all equate in greater research utilization and research capacity building.
Highlights
Trends in rate of maltreatment and out‐of‐home care The primary source of information on child welfare services in Canada is the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and neglect, a cyclical survey that has been conducted every 5 years at the provincial or national levels since 1993 [1, 2]
Despite the scope of these changes, there is a surprising dearth of information about the services provided to the children and families being reported to Canadian child welfare authorities, little research on the efficacy of child welfare services in Canada, and limited evidence of new policies and programs designed to address these changes
This paper reports on a research capacity building initiative designed to address some of these issues
Summary
Trends in rate of maltreatment and out‐of‐home care The primary source of information on child welfare services in Canada is the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and neglect, a cyclical survey that has been conducted every 5 years at the provincial or national levels since 1993 [1, 2]. Graduate student (BRC trainees), supported by a team of university researchers, work as knowledge brokers with community agencies by providing a range of support services, from accessing and summarizing studies from academic journals, to designing questionnaires for internal client or staff surveys, to developing data capture tools, to analyzing data, to writing proposals and reports. In most instances these information gathering, analyzing and synthesizing projects remain the property of the community agencies and are used for their administrative purposes.
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