Faculty profile
Cindy Blackstock
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Research
Latest papers
Kids count, or do they? The importance of accurate data for First Nations children in Canada's child welfare system.
Child abuse & neglect · 2026 · first author
Hospitalization of Children in Foster Homes: A Canadian Cohort Study.
Pediatrics · 2026
Parent-Child Separations and Mental Health among First Nations and Métis Peoples in Canada: Links to Intergenerational Residential School Attendance.
International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
Latest funding
- $148,710
CanFos: Improving the Health of Canadian First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Children in Foster Homes.
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $300,000
First Nations Child and Family Services Implementation
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $100,000
Impact Award: Gold Medal
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
8 publications.
Kids count, or do they? The importance of accurate data for First Nations children in Canada's child welfare system.
Blackstock C, McGonegal C, Fallon B, Trocmé N, Esposito T
Hospitalization of Children in Foster Homes: A Canadian Cohort Study.
Quinn A, Racine N, Trocmé N, Blackstock C, Fallon B, Antwi-Boasiako K, Park J, Barrowman N, Bijelić V, Manuel D, Evans A
Parent-Child Separations and Mental Health among First Nations and Métis Peoples in Canada: Links to Intergenerational Residential School Attendance.
McQuaid RJ, Schwartz FD, Blackstock C, Matheson K, Anisman H, Bombay A
Indigenous ontology, international law and the application of the Convention to the over-representation of Indigenous children in out of home care in Canada and Australia.
Blackstock C, Bamblett M, Black C
Exploring alternate specifications to explain agency-level effects in placement decisions regarding Aboriginal children: Further analysis of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect Part C.
Fallon B, Chabot M, Fluke J, Blackstock C, Sinha V, Allan K, MacLaurin B
Exploring alternate specifications to explain agency-level effects in placement decisions regarding aboriginal children: further analysis of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect Part B.
Chabot M, Fallon B, Tonmyr L, MacLaurin B, Fluke J, Blackstock C
Jordan's Principle: Canada's broken promise to First Nations children?
Blackstock C
Jordan's principle: Editorial update.
Blackstock C
CanFos: Improving the Health of Canadian First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Children in Foster Homes.
Principal investigators: Evans, Andrea; Quinn, Ashley L; Racine, Nicole M; Trocme, Nico
Keywords: Child Welfare; First Nations, Métis, Inuit; Foster Care; Health Outcomes
First Nations Child and Family Services Implementation
Principal investigators: Blackstock, Cindy
Impact Award: Gold Medal
Principal investigators: Blackstock, Cindy N.
Keywords: social work; child maltreatment in First Nations; human rights; Aboriginal child welfare
An examination of individual and community-level social factors and health outcomes associated with experiences in the child welfare system among Indigenous peoples in Canada
Principal investigators: McQuaid, Robyn J; Blackstock, Cindy; Bombay, Amy
Keywords: Child Welfare; Culture; First Nations; Indigenous; Indigenous Health And Wellness; Mixed-Methods; Population Health; Resilience; Sixties Scoop
Just because we're small doesn't mean we can't stand tall: reconciliation education in the elementary classroom
Principal investigators: Blackstock, Cindy
Keywords: reconciliation education; First Nations; Aboriginal research; child participation; children's rights; culturally-based equity; participatory action research; grounded theory
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Amy Bombay and Hymie Anisman: 4 shared papers
- Nicole Racine and Andrea Evans: 3 shared papers
- Amy Bombay and Cindy Blackstock: 1 shared paper
- Nicole Racine and Cindy Blackstock: 1 shared paper
- Nicole Racine and Kofi Antwi-Boasiako: 1 shared paper
- Andrea Evans and Cindy Blackstock: 1 shared paper
- Andrea Evans and Kofi Antwi-Boasiako: 1 shared paper
- Bruce MacLaurin and Cindy Blackstock: 1 shared paper
- Hymie Anisman and Cindy Blackstock: 1 shared paper
- Tonino Esposito and Cindy Blackstock: 1 shared paper
- Cindy Blackstock and Kofi Antwi-Boasiako: 1 shared paper
- Policy and policy administration
- Pediatrics and Child Health
- Calgary Campus
- Neuroscience
- Other Social Work
- Psychology
- Children, Family
- Other
Co-authors at McGill University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Kofi Antwi-Boasiako
Other Social Work
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Amy Bombay
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Nicole Racine
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Andrea Evans
Pediatrics and Child Health
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Bruce MacLaurin
Calgary Campus
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Hymie Anisman
Neuroscience
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Tonino Esposito
Children, Family
1 shared papers, latest 2026
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