Category: Child Welfare System

This section of the website is dedicated to information about the overrepresentation of Indigenous children in child welfare systems across Turtle Island. There is a blog post written by some of the students of the Stolen Lives course, who did research into this issue and gathered some information to give an introductory overview of the topic. Additionally, there is a blog post dedicated to sharing further resources regarding this topic.

Foster care and adoption

There is a significant overrepresentation of Indigenous children in child welfare systems in all of North America.  In 2021 in Canada, the total Indigenous foster child rate was 14.1 times greater than the non-Indigenous foster child rate, with some differences between First Nations, Inuit and Métis children. In the past decade, there was an increase... Continue Reading →

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