What is the Canadian Child Welfare Research Portal (CWRP)?

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The Canadian Child Welfare Research Portal (CWRP), located at cwrp.ca, is an online hub that collects and organizes child welfare research conducted in Canada. It is useful if you need Canadian child welfare studies, provincial and territorial information, or ongoing research tracking in one place. The site describes itself as housing "a collection of well curated child welfare studies conducted in Canada."

What the CWRP provides

The portal is organized around a few core functions:

  • Canadian research collection — a curated set of child welfare studies carried out in Canada.
  • Provincial and territorial coverage — content is broken down by jurisdiction, with listings for British Columbia (BC), Alberta (AB), Saskatchewan (SK), Manitoba (MB), Ontario (ON), Quebec (QC), Yukon (YK), Northwest Territories (NT), Nunavut (NU), Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), Prince Edward Island (PEI), New Brunswick (NB), and Nova Scotia (NS).
  • Indigenous child welfare — a dedicated area addressing Indigenous child welfare.
  • Essential Reports — a section highlighting key reports.
  • Noteworthy — a section for featured or current items.

Research Watch

One of the portal's named resources is Research Watch, described as "an inter-university learning partnership that tracks the major journals monthly and produces concise reviews of exceptional articles on child welfare." If your goal is to keep up with new child welfare literature without reading every journal yourself, this is the part of the site built for that.

Who it is for

The CWRP suits people who need Canadian-specific child welfare material rather than general or international sources — for example, students and researchers looking for Canadian studies, practitioners checking jurisdictional information, or anyone tracking new articles through Research Watch.

How to use it

  1. Go to cwrp.ca.
  2. Use the main navigation to reach research, reports, or a specific province or territory.
  3. Check Research Watch for monthly reviews of journal articles.
  4. Look under Essential Reports and Noteworthy for highlighted material.

The site does not state pricing or login requirements in the available information, so treat access terms as something to confirm on the site itself.