An observational study in Children, sponsored by Hamilton Children's Aid Society. Completed at 1 site in Canada. Open to participants aged 1 Year to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2011-06-23.
Sponsored by Hamilton Children's Aid Society · Observational
The purpose of this study is to assess the cost-effectiveness of this Differential Wraparound model, in 5 Children's Aid Societies within Hamilton-Niagara Region, in preventing maltreatment cases from either becoming ongoing protection cases, or the children ending up in out-of-home of out-of community placements, as well as reducing the amount of time in Children's Aid Society care as compared to usual Children's Aid Society risk assessment and protection service alone.
The number of children in child welfare care has increased from 10,000 in the early 1990s to over 18,000. Ontario spends over $1.1 billion a year on direct child welfare services, more than twice as much as spent in the late 1990s, with the majority of these resources spent on investigation instead of treatment. In response to this situation, Differential Response models, sometimes called alternative, multiple or integrated system responses, have been implemented in the US, Australia and Canada and are all at the beginning stages of systematic evaluation. These models will help prevent maltreatment cases from becoming ongoing protection cases, or the children ending up in out of home or community placements, and reduce the amount of time in Children's Aid Society care. This research will show the benefits and costs of a Differential Response approach to Children's Aid Society care, specifically in the Hamilton-Niagara Region
This is the only study on the registry with Hamilton Children's Aid Society as lead sponsor.
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Clients of CAS going on to protective custody cases
Exclusion Criteria:
Comparing differential response (Wraparound) with usual care
To measure the characteristics of families and their children and comparisons between usual care versus differential response
Time frame: Follow-up at 1 year and 2 years
Follow up measures at 1 year and 2 year follow ups including measuring whether differential response is happening
Time frame: 6 months after facilitator is assigned
This study is completed, as verified in Nov 2009. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
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