Child Welfare Commentaries and Literature Reviews

Articles 

Special Foreword: Family Poverty, Racism, and the Pandemic: From Crises to Opportunity for Transformation Lenette Azzi-Lessing, Boston University and Vandna Sinha, University of Colorado Boulder. This is the forward to a special double issue of Child Welfare that focuses on Poverty, Race, and Child Welfare.

Reimagining Overrepresentation Research: Critical Reflections on Researching the Overrepresentation of First Nations Children in the Child Welfare System Vandna Sinha, Ashleigh Delaye, Brittany Orav-Lakaski, McGill University. This paper builds on experiences with research on the overrepresentation of First Nations children in Canadian child welfare systems to present six key lessons.

A Review of Literature on the Involvement of Children from Indigenous Communities in Anglo Child Welfare Systems: 1973-2018 Vandna Sinha, Johanna Caldwell, Leah Paul, and Paulo Fumaneri, McGill University. A scoping review of over 850 articles on Indigenous child welfare in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Community sidelined: The loss of community focus in differential response. 
Ashleigh Delaye & Vandna Sinha, McGill University. 
This article traces the intellectual history of the Differential Response model and the de-emphasis on the role of community services for families receiving Differential Response services.