Indigenous Children

in the Child Welfare

System
The Intergenerational Effects of Colonialism

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Indigenous families make up 8% of the

Canadian population, but, 14% of First
Nations, Inuit and Metis children are in
foster care.

What is The A state-sponsored system that

Child Welfare aims to act in the best interest of
System? the child.

Indigenous children make up

7.7% of the general population
(0-14).
Disproportions
Indigenous children make up

52.2% of children in foster care

(0-14).

Systematic Occurs when policies appear to be equal,

Discrimination however, they are fundamentally flawed
of Indigenous and unfair to certain groups.
Children

References:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dfjk23pBOEm8oBmatd-
jtFgUwkmCUQuyblwhwY6Kby0/edit?usp=sharing

 A term used to describe the forceful The Sixties

removal of Indigenous children from their Scoop
families by the Child Welfare System.

60'S - 80'S

Unconsented practice in which social workers

"flag" a parent they believe to be unfit and
Birth Alerts incapable of taking care of their expected

child, resulting in the child being forcefully

taken away.

The cruel and violent treatment of

Indigenous children were caused by Maltreatment
neglect, immediate partner violence,
emotional, physical and sexual abuse.

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Figure 1: Rates of Maltreatment-

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Relates Investigations Involving

3.6X First Nations and Non-Indigenous

Children in Canada 2019 (Aulakh,
HIGHER 2022, PowerPoint Slide).
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Figure 2: Rates of Substantiated

Investigations involving First
10 Nations Children and Non-
Indigenous Children in Canada
2019 (Aulakh, 2022, PowerPoint
0
Slide).
Indigenous Children Non-Indigenous

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