Join us in a conversation about Ontario’s Child Welfare Redesign Strategy released in July 2020. This conversation will feature a presentation by David Remington, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Children, Community & Social Services!

Youth Research and Evaluation eXchange (YouthREX) and Practice & Research Together (PART) are pleased to co-present this critical conversation featuring a presentation by David Remington, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Children, Community & Social Services, about Ontario’s Child Welfare Redesign Strategy, released in July 2020.

This child welfare strategy was developed with input from youth, families, caregivers, Indigenous partners, lawyers, community organizations, frontline workers, and child welfare sector leaders. The strategy is focused on strengthening families and communities through prevention, early intervention, and seeking more permanent homes for children and youth in care when they cannot stay in their own homes or communities.

David’s presentation will be followed by an engaging discussion on the issues, challenges, and opportunities of transforming the child welfare system by our special guests:

• Daniel Kikulwe, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, York University
• Chanice McAnuff, Youth Advocate; Founder & CEO, Project Outside
• Cheyanne Ratnam, Founder & Executive Lead/Director, Ontario Children’s Advancement Coalition; Independent Consultant

The conversation will be co-facilitated by Kathe Rogers, Program Director at YouthREX, and Sarah Head, Executive Director at PART.

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Relevant Resources:

• Ontario Releases Strategy to Redesign the Child Welfare System
• Infographic: Overview of Ontario’s Plan to Redesign the Child Welfare System
• Toolkit: Ontario’s Quality Standards Framework
• Toolkit: Children and Young Persons’ Rights Resource
• Featured Collection: One Vision One Voice

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Youth Research and Evaluation eXchange (YouthREX) is a province-wide initiative based at the School of Social Work at York University. Our Mission is to make research evidence and evaluation practices accessible and relevant to Ontario’s grassroots youth sector through capacity building, knowledge exchange, and evaluation leadership. Our Vision is an Ontario where shared knowledge is transformed into positive impact for all youth.

Practice & Research Together (PART) is a Canadian membership-based knowledge translation organization. PART’s core function is to distill and disseminate practice-relevant research findings to child welfare practitioners including child welfare practitioners, supervisors, senior leaders, and foster caregivers. PART promotes the use of research through evidence-informed practice by producing a variety of innovative resources including: literature reviews, webinars, large scale conferences, practice guidebooks, and electronic access to research and academic journals. PART also provides support to individual member agencies as they implement evidence-informed practice.

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Please note that we will be using Zoom Webinar for this presentation. You will receive a confirmation email from YouthREX, as well as reminder emails, that contain the link to access the live webinar on February 24th.

All of our webinars are archived on YouthREX's Knowledge Hub. If you are not able to join us for the live webinar, you will be able to access the recording and related resources.