Indigenous Child Welfare
This section contains material related to 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
Manitoba's Child Welfare System |
Milne, L., Petrella, A. & Trocmé, N.
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Information Sheet
Ontario’s child welfare system |
Petrella, Alessia Trocmé, Nico |
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Information Sheet
Caregiver characteristics in on reserve investigations involving First Nations children aged 0-17 in Canada in 2019 |
Fallon, Barbara |
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Information Sheet
Quebec's child welfare system |
Tremblett, Sarah Trocmé, Nico Delaye, Ashleigh |
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Information Sheet
Alberta's child welfare system |
Tremblett, Sarah Trocmé, Nico Delaye, Ashleigh |
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Report
Denouncing the Continued Overrepresentation of First Nations Children in Canadian Child Welfare: Findings from the First Nations/Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2019 |
Fallon, Barbara *Subsequent authors are listed alphabetically |
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Information Sheet
Newfoundland & Labrador's Child Welfare System Information Sheet |
Tremblett, Sarah
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Information Sheet
Nova Scotia Child Welfare Services Information Sheet |
Tremblett, Sarah |
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Report
An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families Technical Information Package |
Indigenous Services Canada |
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Information Sheet
British Columbia Child Welfare Services Information Sheet |
Sarah Tremblett |