A child welfare system in ‘chaos’ put InFocus
How it contributed to the suicide of Wally Rich, 15, and people including a Kokum on a hunger strike are fighting for change
Child Welfare
Colonial child protection system being imposed on Indigenous families says Irwin Elman
Elman not giving up the fight despite having child advocate office shuttered by Ford government
Indigenous communities need to have ‘both hands on the steering wheel’ when it comes to child welfare: report
Laurent Commission, due out in 2021, says more input should be given to Indigenous communities.
PM announces $542M to help Indigenous communities take over child welfare services
Cash a step forward in overhauling a child welfare system in ‘crisis,’ says Indigenous Services minister
High-risk youth abruptly removed from Weechi foster home despite counsellor’s objection
Removal happened day after foster mom appeared in APTN story on Weechi
Runaway in Barrie: Breakdown in Weechi foster home sends youth 1,600 KM away
‘Auntie … I can’t go back there. Don’t make me go back there’
Deformed youth demands proof child welfare agency has authority to keep him in foster care
Records indicate additional members of his family have congenital anomalies
Case of slain boys ‘a wake-up call’: Wendake chief
Quebec’s human rights commission said it will try to determine whether the children’s rights were violated prior to their killings.
First Nations youth in care likely deformed for life, blames child welfare agency
Even today the youth, 14, is having difficult time getting help from Weechi-it-te-win Family Services