Research
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Latest papers
Beyond "investigating" all survivors of intimate partner violence: When do agencies identify the need for ongoing protection services?
Child abuse & neglect · 2026
Racial disparities in child welfare: A propensity score matched analysis of Black and White children in Canada.
Child abuse & neglect · 2025
Twenty-five years of child welfare data in Ontario, Canada: Examining the response of child welfare to reports of children's exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV)
Child Abuse & Neglect · 2023 · first author
Latest funding
- $477,527
Towards Transformative Systems Change: Targeting the Child Welfare Policies and Practices that Generate and Sustain Disparities for Racialized Populations
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $1,899,617
Alliance against Violence and Adversity (AVA): Health and Social Services Research Training Platform for System and Population Transformations in Girls' and Women's Health
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $155,193
In search of promising approaches: Canadian child protection responses to cases of intimate partner violence
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
13 publications.
Beyond "investigating" all survivors of intimate partner violence: When do agencies identify the need for ongoing protection services?
Fallon B, Black T, Lefebvre R, Moody B, Rasteniene J, Lash-Ballew A
Racial disparities in child welfare: A propensity score matched analysis of Black and White children in Canada.
Boatswain-Kyte A, Antwi-Boasiako K, Baiden P, Trocmé N, Fallon B, Esposito T, Black T, Mackenzie P, Lwin K
Twenty-five years of child welfare data in Ontario, Canada: Examining the response of child welfare to reports of children's exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV)
Tara L. Black, Barbara Fallon, Hannah K. Brown, Sarah Innes, Kineesha William
The utility of Twitter as a tool for increasing reach of research on sexual violence
Wekerle C, Vakili N, Stewart SH, Black T
Keeping up with the technology? Technological advances and child maltreatment research.
Black T, Schwab-Reese L
Factors associated with racial differences in child welfare investigative decision-making in Ontario, Canada
Bryn King, Barbara Fallon, Reiko Boyd, Tara L. Black, Kofi Antwi-Boasiako, Carolyn J. O’Connor
How Can Data Drive Policy and Practice in Child Welfare? Making the Link in Canada.
Fallon B, Filippelli J, Black T, Trocmé N, Esposito T
Infants and the decision to provide ongoing child welfare services.
Filippelli J, Fallon B, Trocmé N, Fuller-Thomson E, Black T
Responding to safety concerns and chronic needs: trends over time
Barbara Fallon, Nico Trocmé, Joanne Filippelli, Tara L. Black, Nicolette Joh-Carnella
Examining Child Welfare Decisions and Services for Asian-Canadian Versus White-Canadian Children and Families in the Child Welfare System.
Lee B, Fuller-Thomson E, Fallon B, Black T, Trocmé N
Towards Transformative Systems Change: Targeting the Child Welfare Policies and Practices that Generate and Sustain Disparities for Racialized Populations
Principal investigators: King, Bryn
Alliance against Violence and Adversity (AVA): Health and Social Services Research Training Platform for System and Population Transformations in Girls' and Women's Health
Principal investigators: Letourneau, Nicole L; Darroch, Francine E; Jackson, Margaret A; Jaffe, Peter G; Leason, Jennifer L; Lessard, Geneviève; Nixon, Kendra L; Rickards, Tracey; Ross, Kharah M; Scott, Katreena L; Stewart-Tufescu, Ashley; Wood, Karen E
Keywords: Adverse Childhood Experiences; Community Services; Evidence-Based Care; Family Violence; Gender- And Sex-Based Analysis; Girls And Women; Health System Tranformation; Intergenerational Trauma; Intersectionality; Primary, Secondary And Tertiary Prevention
In search of promising approaches: Canadian child protection responses to cases of intimate partner violence
Principal investigators: Nixon, Kendra L.
Keywords: intimate partner violence; child protective services; child welfare; policy; children's exposure; domestic violence
Connecting child welfare research to policy and practice
Principal investigators: Fallon, Barbara A.
Keywords: child welfare; child maltreatment; decision-making
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke, Brain Canada and the New Frontiers in Research Fund.
Frequent collaborators
- Barbara Fallon and Bruce MacLaurin: 31 shared papers
- Christine Wekerle and Sherry Stewart: 17 shared papers
- Barbara Fallon and Bryn King: 15 shared papers
- Barbara Fallon and Kofi Antwi-Boasiako: 10 shared papers
- Barbara Fallon and Tara Black: 9 shared papers
- Bryn King and Kofi Antwi-Boasiako: 8 shared papers
- Esme Fuller-Thomson and Barbara Fallon: 6 shared papers
- Barbara Fallon and Barbara Lee: 6 shared papers
- Christine Wekerle and Barbara Fallon: 5 shared papers
- Barbara Fallon and Tonino Esposito: 5 shared papers
- Esme Fuller-Thomson and Barbara Lee: 3 shared papers
- Esme Fuller-Thomson and Tara Black: 3 shared papers
- Christine Wekerle and Tara Black: 2 shared papers
- Barbara Fallon and Alicia Boatswain-Kyte: 2 shared papers
- Bryn King and Tonino Esposito: 2 shared papers
- Bryn King and Alicia Boatswain-Kyte: 2 shared papers
- Barbara Lee and Tara Black: 2 shared papers
- Tonino Esposito and Alicia Boatswain-Kyte: 2 shared papers
- Alicia Boatswain-Kyte and Kofi Antwi-Boasiako: 2 shared papers
- Kofi Antwi-Boasiako and Tara Black: 2 shared papers
- Sherry Stewart and Tara Black: 1 shared paper
- Bryn King and Tara Black: 1 shared paper
- Bruce MacLaurin and Tara Black: 1 shared paper
- Tonino Esposito and Tara Black: 1 shared paper
- Alicia Boatswain-Kyte and Tara Black: 1 shared paper
- School of Social Work
- Centre for Child Development, Mental Health, and Policy
- Department of Pediatrics
- Other Social Work
- Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
- Department of Psychiatry
- Other
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Barbara Fallon
Centre for Child Development, Mental Health, and Policy
9 shared papers, latest 2025
Esme Fuller-Thomson
Faculty
3 shared papers, latest 2017
Christine Wekerle
Department of Pediatrics
2 shared papers, latest 2018
Barbara Lee
School of Social Work
2 shared papers, latest 2017
Kofi Antwi-Boasiako
Other Social Work
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Bruce MacLaurin
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2008
Alicia Boatswain-Kyte
School of Social Work
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Tonino Esposito
School of Social Work
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Sherry Stewart
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Bryn King
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
1 shared papers, latest 2017
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