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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Report
Summary Review of Aboriginal Over-representation in the Child Welfare System
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Book chapter
The Journey of the Métis Settlements Child and Family Services Authority: Serving Alberta's Métis Settlement Children, Youth, and Families
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Book chapter
Supporting Aboriginal Children and Youth with Learning and Behavioural Disabilities in the Care of Aboriginal Child Welfare Agencies
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Information Sheet
Northwest Territories' child welfare system
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Information Sheet
Nunavut's child welfare system
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Information Sheet
Alberta's child welfare system
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Information Sheet
Manitoba’s Child Welfare System
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Information Sheet
New Brunswick’s child welfare system
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Information Sheet
Newfoundland and Labrador’s child welfare system
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Information Sheet
Nova Scotia’s child welfare system
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