Tonino Esposito, Ph.D., joined the McGill Centre for Research on Children and Families (CRCF) in 2007 with eight years of experience as a child welfare and mental health social worker, and was appointed Associate Director of the CRCF from 2012 to 2014. Tonino is currently an Adjunct Professor at McGill University and Assistant Professor at University of Montreal, and nominated for a Tier II Canadian Research Chair in Social Services for Vulnerable Children.
His research focuses on effectively identifying long-term child protection service trajectories, the mediating effects of out-of-home placement on children’s well-being and the influence of socioeconomic vulnerabilities on child protection service outcomes. His participatory and applied community-based research, conducted in collaboration with all child welfare agencies across the province of Quebec, led to a series of population-based longitudinal studies of children’s placement trajectories in the Quebec child welfare system.
Having recently created one of the largest, most comprehensive longitudinal child protection datasets in Canada, Tonino will launch a series of new collaborative studies further examining the mediating effects of out-of-home placement on youth criminality, and the extent to which jurisdictional disparities in socioeconomic vulnerabilities and health and social service funding impact the probability of out-of-home placement, family reunification and reunification breakdown, and recurrence of child maltreatment.
Taken together and in an integrated manner, the longitudinal work of Tonino will help policy makers better understand the context and challenges that vulnerable children and families face, which may change the way we prioritize social services and transform policy on these issues.
Current project involvement includes
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Co-Investigator. Étude longitudinale sur le devenir des jeunes placés au Québec et en France. Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada. Partnership Grant.
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Co-Investigator. Étude pilote sur la santé physique et mentale des jeunes agressés sexuellement et non agressés : services, séjours hospitaliers, diagnostics et medication.
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Principle-Investigator.The impact of neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantages on child protection service outcomes, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada. Insight Development Grant.
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Co-investigator. Groupe de recherche sur le placement et l’adoption en contexte de protection de la jeunesse. Fonds de recherché Societe et Culture. Soutien aux équipes de recherché.
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Co-Investigator. Building Research Capacity with First Nations and Mainstream Youth Protection Services in Quebec. Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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Principle-Investigator. l’Association des centres jeunesse du Québec, Gestion fondée sur les indicateurs de suivi clinique en protection jeunesse.
Contact: tonino.esposito [at] umontreal.ca (Email)