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The indigenous child welfare system and transitions to independence: a scoping review

2025· article· en· W4416549202 on OpenAlexafffund
Amanda Rae Ervin, Hannah Odekina, Anika Dirk, Fatemeh Salehi-Shahrabi, Chloe Luck, Mary Greenshields, Janice Victor

Bibliographic record

VenueChildren and Youth Services Review · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIndigenous Health, Education, and Rights
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Lethbridge
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaUniversity of Lethbridge
KeywordsIndigenousWelfare systemCriminal justiceGovernment (linguistics)WelfareEconomic Justice

Abstract

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This scoping review examined research on Indigenous youths’ experiences as they transition to independence, and out of the child welfare system. Key topics included homelessness, barriers to cultural connections, mistrust of the welfare system, and contact with the criminal justice system as cross-over youths. Themes identified in this scoping review are Cultural Support for Transitions, Housing and Homelessness, Criminal Justice and Incarceration, and Social and Structural Determinants. Recommendations emphasized the extension of government support beyond 18 years of age and maintaining youth connections to family, community and culture. The review highlighted the need for more Indigenous-led research to better represent and address these issues.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.029
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.047
Threshold uncertainty score0.094

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.029
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0080.012
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.299
Teacher spread0.291 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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