The Cedar Project: Negative Health Outcomes Associated with Involvement in the Child Welfare System among Young Indigenous Peoples Who Use Injection and Non-injection Drugs in Two Canadian Cities

Sample of 605 individuals between the ages of 14 and 30 years of age from Prince George and Vancouver, British Columbia. Those who had been taken from their biological parents were more likely to be HIV-positive, homeless, paid for sex, diagnosed and hospitalized with mental illness, self-harmed, and had thought about or attempted suicide.