Exploring Theme: "Indigenous-led Initiatives"

24/7 short term placements mean kids stay ‘if not in their family home then at least in their community’ CBC Indigenous: Keeping children safe and in their home community is the goal of emergency safe houses recently opened in three First Nations in central Saskatchewan.  The safe houses owned and operated by Kanaweyimik Child and Family Services and...

NationTalk: Winnipeg, MB, in the National Homeland of the Red River Métis – Today, the Manitoba Métis Federation (MMF), the National Government of the Red River Métis, the Métis Child and Family Services Authority, Métis Child, Family and Community Services Agency and Michif Child & Family Services are pleased to announce that, as of Friday...

SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL: It was unusually hot for a late-September day in Ontario, so searing that even the rez dogs were lying down, immobile. But the children didn’t care about the heat on Tuesday. They ran around chasing each other in front of those gathered outside the new blue building in town,...