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Child & Youth Welfare

SWRC Research Projects
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Awarded Grants

  • SWRC Seed Grant (2025-2026) - Dr. Daniel Ji. Project title: Institutional Resistance: How gender diverse adolescents and young adults experience and respond to Saskatchewan’s Education Amendment Act (Bill 137)
  • SHRF Establishment Grant (2025-2028) - Dr. Lise Milne (Co-I), Dr. Nathalie Reid (PI) $145,064. Project title: Shifting focus: Understanding the downstream impacts of educator wellbeing on students' attendance, engagement, and wellbeing
  • CIHR Population and Public Health (2025-2026) - Dr. Lise Milne (Co-PI) $100,000. Project title: Co-creating innovative digital knowledge translation tools for parents to prevent online child sexual exploitation and abuse
  • iA Financial (2025) - Dr. Lise Milne (PI), UofR Child Trauma Research Centre $10,000. Project title: Gift to support research on expecting parents
  • SHRF Align Grant (2025) - Dr. Lise Milne (Co-I), Dr. Nathalie Reid (PI) $9,871. Project title: Supporting Saskatchewan youth in care: Building better pathways to post-secondary education
  • SSHRC Insight Grant (2024-2030) - Dr. Lise Milne (Co-I), Dr. Nathalie Reid (PI) $145,064. Project title: Shifting focus: Understanding the downstream impacts of educator wellbeing on students' attendance, engagement, and wellbeing
  • SHRF Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation Solutions Impact Grant - Child and Youth Health (2024-2026) - Dr. Lise Milne (Co-PI) $150,000. Project title: Bolstering the impact of the Child Trauma Research Centre: Collaborative, community-driven approaches to translating child and youth well-being research on trauma-integrated practices for service providers in Saskatchewan
  • Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Innovation Fund (2023-2028) - Dr. Lise Milne (Co-I) $524,106 ($150,000 in investment at the UofR). Project title: The Child and Youth Trauma Research Incubator (ThRIve) - University of Regina Regional Lab
  • SHRF Establishment Grant (2023-2026) - Dr. Gabriela Novotna (Co-I), Dr. Tristan Hopper (PI) $140,735. Project title: Enhancing community wellness programming for youth experiencing homelessness
  • CIHR Catalyst Grant Policy Research for Health System Transformation (2023-2024) - Dr. Bonnie Jeffery (Co-I), Dr. Akram Mahani (PI) (JSGS, UofR) $150,000. Project title: Cross-sectoral collaboration to improve outcomes for children/youth in vulnerable contexts
  • University of Regina Child Trauma Research Centre (CTRC) anonymous donation - Dr. Lise Milne Research Chair $300,000. Project title: In intervention and prevention approaches supporting child and youth health and well-being
  • SHRF Establishment Grant (2022-2025) - Dr. Lise Milne (PI) $119,958. Project title: Exploring the optimal conditions for implementing a trauma-focused prenatal group program in Saskatchewan: Interrupting the intergenerational cycle of trauma
  • CIHR Training Grant (2022-2028) - Dr. Lise Milne, (Co-I),150+ academic and community partners; University of Calgary$2,390,000. Project title: Alliance against Violence and Adversity (AVA): Health and Social Services Research Training Platform for System and Population Transformations in Girls’ and Women’s Health
  • SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2020-2022) - Dr. Kara Fletcher (PI) $74,935. Project title: Stories to tell: A pilot podcast project for youth with lived experience of crystal meth use in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  • SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2020-2022) - Dr. Lise Milne (PI) $54,452. Project title: Supporting workers to build resilience in trauma-impacted children: A Saskatchewan pilot study in a residential program
  • SSHRC Partnership Grant (2020-2027) - Dr. Lise Milne (Co-I), Dr. Dephine Collin-Vézina (PI) (McGill University) $2,500,000. Project title: Canadian Consortium on Child & Youth Trauma (CCCYT): Developing cohesive intersectoral practices and policies to support trauma-impacted children and youth
  • SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant (2020-2021) - Dr. Lise Milne (PI) $21,466. Project title: Foundation-building for a trauma-informed approach to improving the well-being of adolescents and workers in group care contexts
  • CIHR Knowledge Synthesis Grant: COVID-19 Rapid Research Funding Opportunity in Mental Health and Substance Use (2020) - Dr. Lise Milne (Co-PI), Dr. Nathalie Reid (PI) $47,342. Project title: Translating knowledge for child welfare organizations across the Canadian Prairies: Managing the impacts of COVID-19 on the mental health of children, families, and workers
  • SHRF Research Connections COVID-19 Rapid Response Program (2020) - Dr. Lise Milne (Co-PI), Dr. Nathalie Reid (PI) $10,000. Project title: Creating a Digital Connections Hub to support children in care in Saskatchewan during COVID-19 and beyond
  • SSHRC Connection Grant (2019/2020) - Dr. Lise Milne (Co-I), Dr. Delphine Collin-Vézina (PI) (McGill University) $50,000. Project title: A One-Year Series of Outreach Activities on Childhood Complex Trauma
  • U of R President's Seed Grant and McGill Centre for Research on Children and Families RBC Training Fellowship (2019 - 2021), Dr. Lise Milne (Co-I). Project title: Determining the Supports Needed for Group Home Workers to Provide Trauma-Informed Care to Children and Adolescents
  • SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2019-2021) - Dr. Funke Oba (PI), Dr. Amanda Gebhard (Co-I) $70,535.  Project title: Investigating Schooling Experience of Black Youth in Saskatoon
  • SSHRC Insight Grant (2017-2021) - Dr. Lise Milne (Co-I) $155,193. Project title: In Search of Promising Approaches: Canadian Child Protection Responses to Intimate Partner Violence

Publications

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Milne, L., Stoddard, L., & Ratushniak, A. (revise and resubmit). Exploring the optimal conditions for implementing a Canadian trauma-focused prenatal group program: Interrupting the intergenerational cycle of trauma. Societies Special Issue: “Building the Evidence Base for Innovative and Contextually Sensitive Programs to Prevent and Treat Child Abuse and Neglect and Reduce Child Welfare Involvement.”

Ratushniak, A., Milne, L., Nixon, K., & Rosas-Jiménez, C. (Submitted April 2025). Sarah’s story: A Canadian narrative case study and systems map of the complex barriers IPV victim[1]survivors and their children must navigate. Child Protection and Practice.

Liu, R., & Milne, L. (2025). Translating Child Trauma Research into Action: The Child Trauma Research Centre’s Journey to Inform Interventions and Policy. Canadian Psychological Association. Psynopsis: Canada’s Psychology Magazine, 2(11), 10-11.
https://cpa.ca/psynopsis/

Wang, J., Zheng, S., Zhang, M., & Zhao, K. (2025). Parenting styles and adolescents’ cyberbullying: The indirect effect of attitude towards human dignity. Journal of Child and Family Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-024-02971-3

Milne, L., Ratushniak, A., & Nguyen, H. (2024). How adverse childhood experiences impact the professional quality of life of residential care workers: Resilience as a mediator for burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion satisfaction. Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 3, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3389/frcha.2024.1423451

Quan, P., Zhao, K., Liao, M., Tian, X., Wang, S., Rong, C., Wang, M. & Sakamoto, I. (2024, September 6). In search of a safe harbor: An exploration of the experiences of K12 international students in unregulated homestays. SafeHarbor Project & Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. https://socialwork.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/SafeHarbor-Project-Community-Report-compressed.pdf

Kenny, K. S., Wall-Wieler, E., Frank, K., Courchene, L., Burton, M., Dreaver, C., Champagne, M., Nickel, N. C., Brownell, M., Rocke, C., Bennett, M., Urquia, M. L., & Anderson, M. (2024). Identifying newborn discharge to child protective services: Comparing discharge codes from birth hospitalization records and child protection case files. Annals of Epidemiology, 91, 44–50. https://
doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2024.01.001

Craig, S. L., Brooks, A. S., Doll, K., Eaton, A. D., McInroy, L. B., & Hui, J. (2023). Processes and manifestations of digital resilience: Video and textual insights from sexual and gender minority youth. Journal of Adolescent Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584221144958

Craig, S. L., Eaton, A. D., & Leung, V. W. Y. (2023). Capturing resilience: Utilizing brief child and youth resilience measure with sexual and gender minority youth. Social Work Research. https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/svad004

Publications: Books & Chapters

Rocke, C. (2022). Child protection in a rural setting. In Nuelle, N.& Jeffrey, B. (Eds.), Rural and Northern Perspectives in Social Work Practice: Canadian Perspectives. University of Regina, Regina, SK. ISBN 978-0-7731-0784-7

Publications: Other

Milne, L. ( 2022). Report on Harmonized Definitions of Variables in The Canadian Child Welfare Information System Placement Module Protocol. Public Health Agency of Canada.

Milne, L. (2022). Data Dictionary with Technical Specifications for the Canadian Child Welfare Information System Placement Module. Public Health Agency of Canada.

Milne, L., Petrella, A. & Trocmé, N. (2023). Manitoba’s Child Welfare System. Child Welfare Research Portal Information Sheet #242E. Montreal, QC: McGill University, Centre for Research on Children and Families. https://cwrp.ca/publications/manitobas-child-welfare-system-2023

Muhajarine, N., Hinz, T., Adeyinka, D.A., Damodharan, S., Dena, I., Green, K.L., Habbick, M., Jeffery, B., Kallio, N., Macleod, J., McAdam, C., McCutcheon, J., McIntosh, T., Novik, N., Pisolkar, V., Ramamoorthy, S., Roesler, A., Shakurun, N., & Taras, V. (September 2022). Research Brief: Mental health and well-being impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children, youth and families in Saskatchewan. Research Brief 1. See Us, Hear Us 2.0. Saskatoon/Regina, Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan Population
Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU).