{"id":304,"date":"2020-09-02T10:58:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T14:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teenrelationships.lab.yorku.ca\/?page_id=304"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:58:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:58:33","slug":"adolescent-girls-in-child-protective-services-romantic-relationships-and-resilience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/teenrelationships.lab.yorku.ca\/?page_id=304","title":{"rendered":"Adolescent Girls in Child Protective Services: Romantic Relationships and Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Project title: <\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Adolescent Girls in Child Protective Services: Romantic Relationships and Resilience<\/p>\n<h1><strong>About this project:<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>This study was conducted in partnership with York Region Children\u2019s Aid Society in order to explore the role of interpersonal relationships on risk and resilience amongst girls in care. Using a mixed methods design, girls answered questions about their relationships with caregivers, friends, and romantic partners in addition to sexual health behaviours, emotional well-being, dating violence, and academic success. Graduate students analyzed data concerning self-perceptions,\u00a0interpersonal connections, and academic resilience, friend and romantic partner conflict, as well as girls\u2019 conceptions of ideal romantic relationships.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Data collection:<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Participants included 44 girls between the ages of 12-20 who were involved within child protective services.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Related Projects:<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Katherine Benevenuto completed her Masters Thesis:\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-CA\">The Romantic Relationships of Girls in Child Protective Services: Perceptions of Personal Agency <\/span><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Publications and Presentations:<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Benvenuto, K. A.,<\/span>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<strong>Connolly, J<\/strong>. The romantic relationships of girls in child protective services: Met and unmet needs [Conference presentation].\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-CA\">Let's Talk About Youth! A Clinical Developmental Conference, 2025, Ontario Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Chan, S.,<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Wincentak, K.,<\/span> &amp;\u00a0<strong>Connolly, J<\/strong>. Conflicts with friends and romantic partners: Qualitative and quantitative analyses of the experiences of girls in care. <i>Child &amp; Family Social Work<\/i>,\u00a0<i>29<\/i>(4), 1044\u20131055. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/cfs.13158<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connolly, J,<\/strong> &amp; Trejos, E., Correlates of risky sexual behaviors in foster girls: A USA- Canada cross-national comparison. Paper Presentation, American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GE, November 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connolly, J., <\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Wincentak, K., Baird, K., &amp; Benvenuto, K.<\/span>, Continuity and Discontinuity Across Caregiver, Friend and Romantic, Relationships of Girls in Child Protective Services, Invited Symposium Presentation, International Society Study of Behavioral Development, Goldcoast, Australia, July 2018.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Wincentak, K., Baird, K., Benvenuto, K,<\/span> and <strong>Connolly, J<\/strong>. Experiences of Abuse in the Romantic Relationships of Girls in Child Protective Services: A Mixed Method, Multi-Informant Study. Paper presented as part of a symposium at the Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, April 2018.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Wincentak, K., &amp;<\/span> <strong>Connolly. J.<\/strong> Romantic development among girls in the care of child protective services. Paper presented in a symposium: Risk and Vulnerabilities Among Adolescent Girls RR: Systematic Reviews to Inform Child and Youth Policy, Canadian Psychological Association Biennial Meeting, June 2017.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Wincentak, K., <\/span><strong>&amp; Connolly, J.<\/strong> Adolescent Girls in Child Protective Services: A study of Romantic Relationships and Resilience.\u00a0 Paper presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, MA, April 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project title: Adolescent Girls in Child Protective Services: Romantic Relationships and Resilience About this project: This study was conducted in partnership with York Region Children\u2019s Aid Society in order to explore the role of interpersonal relationships on risk and resilience amongst girls in care. 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