CHILD & YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTRES

Several Canadian CACs/CYACs are willing to share well-researched and practical materials that they have developed. Contact each organization directly for more information. Email, phone and other contact info for each CAC can be found under the Organizations tab on the website

The resources listed below are available on this website, and can be clicked on to access.

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  Reports

  • Final Report  2017– Boost, Toronto, ON
  • Activity Report, 2016-2017, Fondation Marie-Vincent, Fondation Marie-Vincent, QUE
  • Rapport d’Activité 2016-2017, Fondation Marie-Vincent, QUE
  • Report on Pilot Phase, 2014 – Boost CYAC, Toronto, ON
  • Needs Assessment, Final Report 2013 – Peel Region, ON
  • Preliminary model development report, 2012 – West Kootenay, BC

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  MOUs (Memoranda of Understanding) & Governance

  • MOU 2015 – Caribou – Grande Prairie, AB
  • Governance PowerPoint, 2013 – Boost CYAC, Toronto, ON

  Tools & Forms

  • Consent form, 2018 – Boost CYAC, Toronto, ON
  • Case Intake Flowchart, 2015 – Boost CYAC, Toronto, ON
  • Service model – simple (n/d) – Boost CYAC, Toronto, ON
  • Statistical reporting form, 2013 – Koala Place, Cornwall, ON
  • Consent to Obtain and Communicate Information Form, (Eng), Fondation Marie-Vincent
  • Consentement à Obtenir et Communiquer de l’Information (Fr), Fondation Marie-Vincent
  • Consent to Psychosocial Intervention Services for Teenagers Form (Eng), Fondation Marie-Vincent
  • Consentement aux services d’intervention aux adolescents (Fr), Fondation Marie-Vincent 
  • Psychosocial Services for Parents, Information Brochure (Eng), Fondation Marie-Vincent 

  • Consentement aux Services d’Intervention Psychosociale aux Parents (Fr), Fondation Marie-Vincent

  Knowledge Bank: Expertise, Skills, Practices

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  Advocates: Child Advocates, Youth Advocates, Family Advocates

  • Child and youth advocacy centres: A change in practice that can change a lifetime,  2018; journal article Christina L. Shaffer, Tanya D. Smith, Amy E. Ornstein The authors are from SeaStar CYAC, Halifax and Boost CYAC Toronto.
  • Role of the Child Advocate – Boost, Toronto ON

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  Victim Support and Court Preparation

  • Victim Services Manual – Victoria CYAC, Victoria, BC
  • Resource Guide for Justice Professionals Working with Child Witnesses in Northern Canada – Project Lynx – Yukon

Forensic Interviewing

• • Article on forensic interviewing from our Topics &Trends

Childhood Trauma and Treatment

• • Understanding Trauma, 2013 – Boost, Toronto ON

• National CYAC/CAC Knowledge Exchange 2018 – Ottawa

  1. A Nationwide survey of child interviewing practices in Canada
     Sonja P. Brubacher (Eng.)
  2. Un sondage national sur les pratiques d’entrevues au Canada
     Sonja P. Brubacher (Fr.)
  3. Monitoring Feedback for Forensic Interviewing
     Sonja Brubacher and Meredith Kirkland-Burke (Fr.)
  4. Monitoring & Feedback for Forensic Interviewing
     Sonja Brubacher and Meredith Kirkland-Burke (Eng.)
  5. Project Lynx – A Yukon Child and Youth Advocacy Centre.
     Lindsay Roberts (Eng)
  6. Centre d’appui aux enfants et à la jeunesse du Yukon.
     Lindsay Roberts (Fr.)
  7. Fondation Marie-Vincent, Quebec
     Annie Fournier et Martine Hébert (FR)
  8. Foundation Marie-Vincent, Quebec
     Annie Fournier et Martine Hébert (Eng)
  9. Snowflake Place for Children and Youth – Spotlight, Manitoba (Eng.)
  10. Snowflake Place for Children and Youth – Spotlight, Manitoba (Fr.)
  11. SeaStar Child and Youth Advocacy Centre – Highlight. Halifax (Eng.)
  12. SeaStar Child and Youth Advocacy Centre – Highlight. Halifax (Fr.)
  13. Provincial Roundtable on CYAC Best Practices BC (Eng.)
  14. Table Ronde Provinciale BC (Fr.)

• Information Links 

  The Canadian Child Abuse Association has many new tools and resources that you can access on their website:

  https://ccaa.org/ccaa_tools.html

  The Child Welfare Research Portal: https://cwrp.ca/ The CWRP provides child protection professionals, researchers, and the public with a single point of access to Canadian child welfare research, encompassing research on children who have been abused and neglected, and the programs and policies developed to support and protect children and to support their families. The Portal includes databases of Canadian research publications, and information and statistics about provincial, territorial, aboriginal and national child welfare policies, legislation and programs.

  The Internet Watch Foundation: This Annual Report provides an excellent summary of the latest data on the global state of child sexual abuse images and videos online: https://www.iwf.org.uk/what-we-do/who-we-are/annual-reports

• The Child Abuse Library Online (CALiO™): The Child Abuse Library Online, a service of the National Children’s Advocacy Center, is the largest online professional collection of resources related to child maltreatment.   CALiO™ Collections offers open access to high quality published knowledge, educational materials, and resources, including hundreds of peer reviewed research publications that can be downloaded and shared without permission.