Effective intervention in child protective services: Learning from parents

Sixty-one parents, mainly mothers, in two mid-size Ontario (Canada) cities were interviewed about their experiences with Child Protective Services (CPS) agencies, one in each city. The interviewers took a semi-structured approach that focussed on learning about the challenges in the parents' daily lives (to be reported in a future paper), and their perceptions of CPS interventions. Four researchers, including the three authors, developed a …