Dr. Ghayda Hassan will describe the key points of the Child Maltreatment review of the Canadian Collaboration for Immigrant and Refugee Health Evidence-based clinical guidelines.
Ethnic minority children, possibly including recentlysettled immigrants and/or refugees are disproportionately over-screened (up to 8.75 times more likely), over-reported (up to four times more likely) for child maltreatment, and over-represented (up to 1.77 greater odds) among child protection service clients.
Immigrant and refugee families may be particularly vulnerable to potential harms consequent to false positive screens.