First Nations leaders in B.C. call on child and family minister to resign
Ministry did not check on children, who were beaten and starved while in care.
Child Welfare
More children in care staying with extended family in Yukon says new report
According to a new report, there’s been a 137 per cent increase in the number…
Child welfare agencies failed to protect vulnerable Indigenous child: Ombudsman
Misty went missing seven times while living under the care of Johnson Children’s Services in an undisclosed city.
AFN regional chief says First Nations leaders united on revised child welfare compensation deal
Assembly of First Nations Regional Chief Cindy Woodhouse says it has taken months of work…
Nations in British Columbia sign agreement to take over jurisdiction of child welfare
Simpcw and Gitsegukla Nations traded sockeye salmon to celebrate the signing of the first co-created…
Two First Nations in B.C. share child welfare agreement – and salmon
Two First Nations in B.C. came together this week to sign a declaration recognizing their…
Report details a decade of deaths and injuries connected to Alberta’s child welfare system
Alberta’s Advocate for Children and Youth has released 10 years of disturbing statistics. The new…
Indigenous youth target of colonization says advocate Gabrielle Fayant
For more than a century, residential schools, the ‘60s Scoop, and the child welfare systems…
Louis Bull Nation signs agreement with federal government to begin delivering child services
‘It was a dream, now it is a reality,” says Wilton Littlechild.