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.
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Information Sheet
New Brunswick’s child welfare system
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Information Sheet
Newfoundland & Labrador's Child Welfare System Information Sheet
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Information Sheet
Newfoundland and Labrador’s child welfare system
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Journal article
News Reporting on Aboriginal Child Welfare: Discourses of White Guilt, Reverse Racism, and Failed Policy
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Journal article
Nistawatsiman: Rethinking assessment of Aboriginal parents for child welfare following the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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Report
Nistawatsimin: Exploring First Nations Parenting: A Literature Review and Expert Consultation with Blackfoot Elders
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Information Sheet
Northwest Territories' child welfare system
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Information Sheet
Nova Scotia Child Welfare Services Information Sheet
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Information Sheet
Nova Scotia’s child welfare system
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Information Sheet
Nunavut's child welfare system
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