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 Ontario Looking After Children (OnLAC) project has gathered information on results and well-being from interviews with more than 35,000 young people in care, 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.

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 Ontario Looking After Children (OnLAC) project has gathered information on results and well-being from interviews with more than 35,000 young people in care, 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.

A Child's View of Divorce. Through powerful words and illustrations, Julianna tells her story of her parents' divorce to other children. Children listen to and learn from other children. There is no better way to explain the feelings and changes associated with divorce than from one child to another. There are girl and boy versions of A Child's View of Divorce. These books are unique because they relay the story of divorce as told and experienced by sister and brother, Julianna and Nick.

A Child's View of Divorce. Through powerful words and illustrations, Nick tells his story of his parents' divorce to other children. Children listen to and learn from other children. There is no better way to explain the feelings and changes associated with divorce than from one child to another. There are boy and girl versions of A Child's View of Divorce. These books are unique because they relay the story of divorce as told and experienced by brother and sister, Nick and Julianna.

A Child's View of Divorce. Through powerful words and illustrations, Nick tells his story of his parents' divorce to other children. Children listen to and learn from other children. There is no better way to explain the feelings and changes associated with divorce than from one child to another. There are boy and girl versions of A Child's View of Divorce. These books are unique because they relay the story of divorce as told and experienced by brother and sister, Nick and Julianna.

A Child's View of Divorce. Through powerful words and illustrations, Julianna tells her story of her parents' divorce to other children. Children listen to and learn from other children. There is no better way to explain the feelings and changes associated with divorce than from one child to another. There are girl and boy versions of A Child's View of Divorce. These books are unique because they relay the story of divorce as told and experienced by sister and brother, Julianna and Nick.