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
First Nations Child Welfare in Alberta
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Information Sheet
First Nations Child Welfare in British Columbia
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Information Sheet
First Nations Child Welfare in Manitoba
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Information Sheet
First Nations Child Welfare in New Brunswick
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Information Sheet
First Nations Child Welfare in Nova Scotia
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Information Sheet
First Nations Child Welfare in Ontario
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Information Sheet
First Nations Child Welfare in Saskatchewan
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Journal article
Motives of Aboriginal foster parents
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Working with First Nations, Inuit and Métis Families who have Experienced Family Violence: A Practice Guide for Child Welfare Professionals | |
Information Sheet
A comparison of First Nations and non-Aboriginal children investigated for maltreatment in Canada in 2003
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