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1 A holistic approach to child development: factors influencing overall development in children in care in Ontario, Canada Meagan Millera, Barbara Greenberga, Erik Michaela, Robert Flynna,b aCentre for Research on Educational and Community Services, University of Ottawa (Canada) bSchool of Psychology, University of Ottawa (Canada)

2 Outline Ontario, Canada Ontario Looking After Children
Purpose of the current study Research Question I factor analysis Research Question II overall development predictors Conclusion/practical implications

3 Ontario, Canada AREA Portugal 91,568 km2 Spain 505,990 km2
United Kingdom 244,820 km2 Denmark 44,493 km2 Belgium 30,510 km2 Malta 316 km2 + 44 km2 Ontario 917,741 km2

4 Ontario, Canada

5 OnLAC Mandated in Ontario to assess service needs and developmental outcomes of young people in care Uses Second Canadian Adaptation of Assessment and Action Record (AAR-C2-2016) Seven developmental dimensions: Health Education Identity Family & Social Relationships Social Presentation Emotional & Behavioural Development Motor & Social Development 18th year of data collection (2001-present)

6 Ages & Stages Questionnaires®, Third Edition (ASQ®-3)
Caregiver-completed screening tool for infants aged 1 month to children aged 66 months (5.5 years) 21 age-interval questionnaires, 19 included in the AAR-C (6- to 60-months) Five developmental domain scales in each questionnaire: Communication Fine motor Personal-social development Gross motor Problem solving Higher score = greater development in specific domain

7 Purpose of the current exploratory study
Phase I: to examine and explain the relationship between the five domains of development measured by the Ages & Stages Questionnaire®, Third Edition Phase II: to provide decision-makers (practitioners, caregivers, and policy-makers) with evidence of demographic, risk, and protective factors affecting overall development for children in care.

8 Phase I: Research question
Is it possible to simplify ASQ®-3 data? ??? Communication Personal-social development Gross motor Problem solving Fine motor

9 Phase I sample Cross-sectional sample OnLAC years 2016-2017
N = 1,459 children Aged 8 months to 5 years (mean 2.3 years) 53.6% male, 46.4% female

10 Phase I results Exploratory factor analysis

11 Phase I results Factor loadings
Communication .81 Problem solving .79 Fine motor .73 Personal-social dev. .67 Gross motor .64

12 Phase I results Exploratory factor analysis
OVERALL DEVELOPMENT Communication Total proportion of variance accounted for = 62.37% Problem solving Fine motor Reliability α = .85 Personal-social dev. Gross motor The total proportion of variance accounted for by our superfactor is 62.37% and our new measure of overall development has a Cronbach’s alpha of .85, or very good reliability. Higher scores on our new, composite measure indicate a higher level of overall development.

13 ??? Phase I conclusion OVERALL DEVELOPMENT Personal-social
Communication Personal-social development Gross motor Problem solving Fine motor

14 Phase II overall development sample
Cross-sectional sample OnLAC N = 1,097 children, aged 1 to 5 years (mean 2.5 years) 54.1% male, 45.9% female Placement Kinship 7.9% Foster home 86.4% Customary care (for Indigenous children) 3.8% Other 1.8%

15 Phase II overall development predictors
Sex Age Number of children in the home Social-emotional difficulties Child’s positive self-view Kin care placement Caregivers’ literacy-promoting activities

16 Phase II overall development regression results
Statistically significant model F (7, 1096) = 81.40, p < .001 Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Predictors B Standardized Beta Sex (1 = Female; 0 = Male) 2.42c .12 1.65c .01 1.48b .08 Age (in years) .06c .11 .02 Number of children living in the home -.38a -.06 -.34a Social-emotional difficulties -.51c -.52 -.45c -.46 Child’s positive self-view 1.50a .05 Kinship care placement (1 = Kinship, 0 = Other) 2.14a .06 Caregiver literacy-promoting activities 2.16c .22 𝑹 2 .01c .29c .34c Notes: a p < .05 (2-tailed); b p < .01 (2-tailed); c p < .001 (2-tailed)

17 Phase II summary of significant predictors of overall development
Sex Age Number of children in the home Social-emotional difficulties Child’s positive self-view Kin care placement Caregivers’ literacy-promoting activities

18 Personal-social development
Implications Gross motor Personal-social development Communication Problem solving Fine motor

19 Implications for caregivers and child welfare practitioners
Literacy promotion OVERALL DEVELOPMENT Fewer children in the placement Kin placement

20 Acknowledgements The collaboration and financial support of the Ontario Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services and the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies are gratefully acknowledged. Thanks also to the numerous young people in care, caregivers, lead hands, practitioners, supervisors, quality-assurance staff, executive personnel, and OnLAC research assistants who have contributed much to the OnLAC project since the beginning.

21 Contact Meagan Miller mmiller@uottawa.ca
Ontario Looking After Children Research Associate Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

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