Alberta’s child and youth advocate finds gaps in youth trauma practices
CBC Canada · 19 days ago
CBC Canada
19 days ago
Alberta’s Office of the Child and Youth Advocate says it has found gaps in care when child intervention workers assessed families in recent years. As CBC's Nicole Healey explains, this finding comes from a review studying 69 children or young adults who died or experienced serious injury.
Breakdown
- Over half of reviewed cases showed gaps in evaluating caregiver capacity 8s
- 70% of youth had mental health or substance use challenges and trauma 30s
- Two-thirds of affected youth were Indigenous, raising reconciliation concerns 1m 32s
- Report recommends trauma-informed training and public policy access 53s
- Government pledges to review recommendations and improve youth care 2m 10s