Report on Child Welfare from the Manitoba Chiefs Association

Left to Right: Charlene Gladu, Chief Bill Traverse, Grand Chief Derek Nepinak, Chief Arlen Dumas, and elder Elmer Courchene talk about child and family services. The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs will release its own report on child welfare in the province.

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Kate Fort at Turtle Talk

The child welfare system in Manitoba must be overhauled to shift the focus back on the territory of First Nations and on families and the parenting skills gutted by a century and a half of residential schools, aboriginal leaders said on Tuesday.
The 10 proposals, contained in a reported entitled Bringing our Children Home, include a sharp reduction in the number of group homes and foster families centralized in Winnipeg.

Charlene Gladu talks about current conditions children in care face. (KEN GIGLIOTTI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS) Photo Store

First Nations have been empowered for a decade to run their own child welfare system on the basis of an agreement struck with the provincial government. But practically since its inception, First Nations, especially chiefs, have been at loggerheads with the government over how to run the system at reserve level.
 

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