Sentences with phrase «nations on child welfare»

Claire has also worked with First Nations on child welfare reform and represented a Native child welfare agency at a Coroner's Inquest.

She has worked extensively with and for First Nations on child welfare and adoption proceedings.

Not exact matches

But, rather than fighting child poverty on First Nations reserves, the government has been spending literally millions of your dollars and mine to fight against equal child welfare support for First Nations kids.

She said it's not the nation, which «ranks at the bottom on child welfare.»

Two new reports — one charting a generation - long lack of progress in solving the nation's day - care problems, and another focusing on the quality of care used by women affected by new welfare - to - work programs — argue that the nation has yet to meet the challenge of providing high - quality child care to a broad spectrum of its children.

While the nation's governors failed to rally behind a single recommendation last week on how Congress should structure a new welfare system, they did agree that any overhaul should include services to poor children and provide assistance to prevent teenage pregnancy.

It is the first school in the nation designed explicitly to focus on the specific needs of children in the child welfare system; 49 percent of its students are in the foster care system or considered at risk of placement in foster care.

Children are not toys or added work hands when your family is on the edge of survival - they are liabilities to the welfare of their families, nations and the world.

The optimist in me hopes the recent decision of a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on the under - funding of First Nations child welfare programs, which references the ICESCR, may signal a reversal of these trends.

On February 23, 2007 the Assembly of First Nations and the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society filed a Canadian Human Rights complaint alleging Canada is discriminating against First Nations children in the provision of on reserve child welfarOn February 23, 2007 the Assembly of First Nations and the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society filed a Canadian Human Rights complaint alleging Canada is discriminating against First Nations children in the provision of on reserve child welChild and Family Caring Society filed a Canadian Human Rights complaint alleging Canada is discriminating against First Nations children in the provision of on reserve child welfaron reserve child welchild welfare.

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal issued a second Compliance Order against the Government of Canada on the First Nations child welfare case on September 15, 2016.

On January 26, 2016, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled the Canadian government discriminates against First Nations children by inequitably funding child welfare services and by failing to fully implement Jordan's Principle.

January 26, 2017 marked the first - year anniversary of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal's («The Tribunal») landmark decision regarding the issue of funding for child welfare services provided to First Nations children on reserve and in the Yukon.

In a landmark ruling released on January 26, 2016, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal found that the Canadian government is racially discriminating against 163,000 First Nations children and their families by providing flawed and inequitable child welfare services («FNCFS Program») and failing to implement Jordan's Principle to ensure equitable access to government services available to other children.

The federal government has maintained the child welfare funding does not constitute service delivery and that First Nations children on reserve do not receive child welfare funding at a discriminatory level compared to their counterparts in Canada.

In Mabon, Thorpe LJ considered the application of article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), and the tensions between welfare and a child's autoChild (UNCRC), and the tensions between welfare and a child's autochild's autonomy:

The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and the Assembly of First Nations filed a human rights complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission in which they allege that the Government of Canada under - funds child welfare services for on - reserve First Nations chilChild and Family Caring Society and the Assembly of First Nations filed a human rights complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission in which they allege that the Government of Canada under - funds child welfare services for on - reserve First Nations chilchild welfare services for on - reserve First Nations children.

They say that the result of this under - funding is that the level of some of the services provided for these children is inadequate, and that other child welfare services otherwise available to Canadian children are not available to First Nations children living on reserves.

In the challenge, the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and the Assembly of First Nations argue the federal government, which is responsible for funding social programs on reserves, is discriminating by spending 22 per cent less on child - welfare services than provincial governments provide for children who live off reseChild and Family Caring Society and the Assembly of First Nations argue the federal government, which is responsible for funding social programs on reserves, is discriminating by spending 22 per cent less on child - welfare services than provincial governments provide for children who live off resechild - welfare services than provincial governments provide for children who live off reserves.

«And although we're starting to see, thanks to the tribunal's work and all of the First Nations communities and families and children who have advocated and stood with us during this long court battle, inequality starting to close in child welfare and on Jordan's Principle, we still have issues with education, early childhood, basics like water and sanitation, that are going to continue to pile up on hopes and dreams of children.»

(2011) Protecting Children, 26 (2) Presents lessons learned from child welfare researchers and practitioners from across the nation from the National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Resident Fathers and the Child Welfare Sychild welfare researchers and practitioners from across the nation from the National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Resident Fathers and the Child Welfare SyChild Welfare System.

Customary Adoption National Indian Child Welfare Association Provides bibliographies of resources on a variety of topics, including customary adoptions, first nations adoptions, identity development, the Indian Adoption Project, outcomes for transracial adoption of Native American children, and general Tribal child welChild Welfare Association Provides bibliographies of resources on a variety of topics, including customary adoptions, first nations adoptions, identity development, the Indian Adoption Project, outcomes for transracial adoption of Native American children, and general Tribal child welchild welfare.

Protecting Children, 26 (2), 2011 Presents lessons learned from child welfare researchers and practioners from across the nation from the National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Resident Fathers and the Child Welfare Sychild welfare researchers and practioners from across the nation from the National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Resident Fathers and the Child Welfare SyChild Welfare System.

Customary Adoption National Indian Child Welfare Association Provides bibliography of resources on customary adoptions, First Nations Adoptions, identity development, Indian Adoption Project, Outcomes for Transracially Adoption Native American Children, and general Tribal child welChild Welfare Association Provides bibliography of resources on customary adoptions, First Nations Adoptions, identity development, Indian Adoption Project, Outcomes for Transracially Adoption Native American Children, and general Tribal child welchild welfare.

Across the nation, current trends show increased reliance on kinship placements within child welfare.

On any given night, about 57,000 children in our nation's child welfare systems are going to bed without the care and comfort of a family.

National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) The NCTSN works to serves the nation's traumatized children and their families by raising public awareness of the scope and serious impact of child traumatic stress on the safety and healthy development of America's children and youth; advancing a broad range of effective services and interventions by creating trauma - informed developmentally and culturally appropriate programs that improve the standard of care; working with established systems of care including the health, mental health, education, law enforcement, child welfare, juvenile justice, and military family service systems to ensure that there is a comprehensive trauma - informed continuum of accessible care; and fostering a community dedicated to collaboration within and beyond the NCTSN to ensure that widely shared knowledge and skills become a sustainable national resoChild Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) The NCTSN works to serves the nation's traumatized children and their families by raising public awareness of the scope and serious impact of child traumatic stress on the safety and healthy development of America's children and youth; advancing a broad range of effective services and interventions by creating trauma - informed developmentally and culturally appropriate programs that improve the standard of care; working with established systems of care including the health, mental health, education, law enforcement, child welfare, juvenile justice, and military family service systems to ensure that there is a comprehensive trauma - informed continuum of accessible care; and fostering a community dedicated to collaboration within and beyond the NCTSN to ensure that widely shared knowledge and skills become a sustainable national resochild traumatic stress on the safety and healthy development of America's children and youth; advancing a broad range of effective services and interventions by creating trauma - informed developmentally and culturally appropriate programs that improve the standard of care; working with established systems of care including the health, mental health, education, law enforcement, child welfare, juvenile justice, and military family service systems to ensure that there is a comprehensive trauma - informed continuum of accessible care; and fostering a community dedicated to collaboration within and beyond the NCTSN to ensure that widely shared knowledge and skills become a sustainable national resochild welfare, juvenile justice, and military family service systems to ensure that there is a comprehensive trauma - informed continuum of accessible care; and fostering a community dedicated to collaboration within and beyond the NCTSN to ensure that widely shared knowledge and skills become a sustainable national resource.