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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. |
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.
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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