First Nations parenting and child reunification: Identifying strengths, barriers, and community needs within the child welfare system

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Toombs ◽  
Alexandra S. Drawson ◽  
Tina Bobinski ◽  
John Dixon ◽  
Christopher J. Mushquash
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Community Needs

Exploring Alternate Explanations for Agency-Level Effects in Placement Decisions Regarding Aboriginal Children

2020 ◽  
pp. 215-234
Author(s):  
Barbara A. Fallon ◽  
John D. Fluke ◽  
Martin Chabot ◽  
Cindy Blackstock ◽  
Vandna Sinha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Placement Decisions ◽  
Aboriginal Children

This chapter summarizes a series of published papers that used data from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS) to explore the influence of case and organizational characteristics on decisions to place Aboriginal children in out-of-home placements. The premise of the analyses was that these influences were consistent with the framework of the Decision-Making Ecology. In Canada, Aboriginal children are overrepresented at all points of child welfare decision-making: investigation, substantiation, and placement in out-of-home care. Case factors accounting for the overrepresentation of Aboriginal children at all service points in the child welfare system include poverty, poor housing, and substance misuse, and these factors, when coupled with inequitable resources for First Nations children residing on reserves, result in the overrepresentation of Aboriginal children in the Canadian child welfare system. For this study, the authors examine case characteristics and organizational factors in a multilevel context, hypothesizing that children are more likely to be placed out of home in agencies that serve a relatively high proportion of Aboriginal children. According to the statistical models presented, the most important of these factors is whether the provincial government operates the child welfare agency. As with the proportion of Aboriginal children on the caseload, the risk of a child being placed is greater in government-run agencies compared to agencies operated by private funders. Further analysis needs to be conducted to fully understand individual- and organizational-level variables that may influence /decisions regarding placement of Aboriginal children.

scholarly journals "For the Good of the Child": The Colonial Machinations of Child Welfare in Canada

INvoke ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Sunday
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
First Nations ◽  
School System ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Residential Schools ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Residential School ◽  
School Project ◽  
The Past

Although residential schools no longer exist today, the systems of oppression which allowed them to operate continue. These systems have existed non-linearly throughout time, as the past, present, and future effects of colonialism intersect in the lives of First Nations. The spiritual successor of the residential school project can be viewed in many contemporary structures; specifically, in the institutionalized violence accumulated within the child welfare system. In this paper, I argue that the contemporary child welfare system in Canada, as it relates to both on- and off-reserve First Nations children, is the modern-day successor of the Indian Residential School System. Specifically, the strategies of racialization and subalternation underpinning the colonial machine, and exemplified within the residential school system, have surreptitiously reformed into the child welfare system.

scholarly journals Canadian First Nations Child Welfare Care Policy: Managing Money in "Ottawapiskat"

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Darcy Joseph Tootoosis
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Residential School ◽  
Child And Family Services ◽  
Family Services ◽  
Nations Child ◽  
First Nations People

The inter-generational loss of Indigenous identity in Canada has been a result of Canadian Aboriginal policy in the past and present. The policies of the residential school era and the policies of today’s child welfare system lead to similar outcomes, particularly governmental determination of how the next generation of First Nations people are affected by the state. By 1997-1998, the Department of Indian and Native Affairs reported that First Nations child and family services were administering services to 70% of children on reserves, and that number was projected to increase to 91% by 2002. In 1940 when the residential school system was still in full use, there were almost 8,000 children in the schools across the country; compare that statistic to the year 2002 when there were over 22,500 First Nations children in the child welfare system, showing a progression of almost three times the number living in state care. The numerous social problems resulting from poverty are re-enforced by the Federal Government’s policy decision to neglect taking action despite their own commissions and research data. Procedural problems in child welfare administration arise due to government jurisdictions, which will also be discussed.

scholarly journals Reflections of a Mi’kmaq social worker on a quarter of a century work in First Nations child welfare

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-45
Author(s):  
Nancy MacDonald ◽  
Judy MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Child Welfare System ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Nations Child ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
First Nations People ◽  
The 1960S

First Nations people would argue that the ‘Sixties Scoop’ of removing their children from their homes and culture never ended. First Nations children entering ‘care’ of child welfare agencies has increased significantly since the 1960s and 1970s. Storying the journey of a Mi’kmaq social worker working with a First Nations child, aspects of the child welfare system will be theoretically and historically located and critiqued from a social justice perspective. Schools of Social Work will be challenged to provide an education inclusive of decolonization, understanding the historical limitations of the child welfare system and its impact upon First Nations peoples.

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