Aboriginal Child Welfare

This section contains information on the persistent overrepresentation of Aboriginal children in the child welfare system, the growing number of First Nations and Métis child and family service agencies, and programs/policies which are designed to address the complex needs of Aboriginal families and children involved with the child welfare system.

Title Authors Year Type of Publication
A comparison of First Nations and non-Aboriginal children investigated for maltreatment in Canada in 2003

MacLaurin, Bruce
Trocmé, Nico
Fallon, Barbara
Blackstock, Cindy
Pitman, Lisa
McCormack, Megan

2011 Information sheet
Research-Community: Partnerships in Child Welfare

Léveillé, Sophie
Trocmé, Nico
Brown, Ivan
Chamberland, Claire

2011 Book
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on First Nations child welfare: Why if Canada wins, equality and justice lose

Blackstock, Cindy

2011 Journal article
Children under 15, registered Indian status and total population, for Canada, the provinces and territories, 2006

First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada

2011
Inuit Child Welfare and Family Support: Policies, Programs and Strategies

Rae, Lisa

2011 Report
Kiskisik Awasisak: Remember the Children. Understanding the Overrepresentation of First Nations Children in the Child Welfare System

Sinha, Vandna
Trocmé, Nico
Fallon, Barbara
MacLaurin, Bruce
Fast, Elizabeth
Prokop, Shelley Thomas
et al.

2011 Report
Hand-in-Hand: A Review of First Nations Child Welfare in New Brunswick

Richard, Bernard

2010 Report
Developmental and Cultural Assets and Resilient Outcomes in First Nations Young People in Care: An Initial Test of an Explanatory Model

Filbert, Katharine
Flynn, Robert J.

2010 Journal article
Placement decisions and disparities among aboriginal groups: An application of the decision making ecology through multi-level analysis

Fluke, John
Chabot, Martin
Fallon, Barbara
MacLaurin, Bruce
Blackstock, Cindy

2010 Journal article
Placement decisions and disparities among aboriginal groups: An application of the decision making ecology through multi-level analysis

Fluke, John
Chabot, Martin
Fallon, Barbara
MacLaurin, Bruce
Blackstock, Cindy

2010 Journal article