Indigenous Child Welfare
Canada has a decentralized child welfare system that consists of 13 Canadian provincial and territorial child welfare systems. In addition, there exists Métis, First Nations and urban Indigenous child and family service agencies that are to varying degrees affected by federal policies and funding models.
Most commonly, Indigenous child welfare agencies have signed agreements with either the federal or both the federal and provincial governments that authorizes them to provide the full range of child protection services and receive federal funding to do so.
For more information about First Nations child welfare, see Denouncing the Continued Overrepresentation of First Nations Children in Canadian Child Welfare.
- Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on First Nations Child Welfare
- Jordan's Principal
- Overrepresentation in Context
For information on the First Nations human rights complaint case against the federal government for under-funding child welfare services on-reserve: I am a witness.
Title Sort ascending | Year of Publication |
---|---|
Other
Glossary of Social Work Terms and Child Maltreatment Related Concepts
|
|
Journal article
From the House of Commons resolution to Pictou Landing Band Council v. Canada: An update on the implementation of Jordan’s Principle
|
|
Book chapter
From Longing to Belonging: Attachment Theory, Connectedness, and Indigenous Children in Canada
|
|
Information Sheet
Foster Care Disparity for First Nations Children in 2011
|
|
Information Sheet
Foster Care Disparity for Aboriginal Children in 2011
|
|
Information Sheet
First Nations Child Welfare in Saskatchewan
|
|
Information Sheet
First Nations Child Welfare in Ontario
|
|
Information Sheet
First Nations Child Welfare in Nova Scotia
|
|
Information Sheet
First Nations Child Welfare in New Brunswick
|
|
Information Sheet
First Nations Child Welfare in Manitoba
|