Delegated Aboriginal Agencies

In this regard, we also note that despite the commitment to new initiatives and the addition of new resources, MCFD’s current Service Plan sets a performance target for a reduction of just less than one per cent in the rate of Indigenous children in care by 2019/20 and also sets a performance target that actually slightly increases the huge disproportionality in the rates of Indigenous children in [...] In addition, the reports of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada, the findings of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT 2, 2016), and federal funding documents and research literature on DAA funding in Canada were thoroughly reviewed, as was Grand Chief Ed John’s November 2016 report on Aboriginal child welfare in B. C. For the purposes of privacy, the names of interview participants [...] The high proportion of Indigenous children in contact with the child welfare system is of specific concern, given evidence showing poorer outcomes related to education, health and well-being for children and youth in care or receiving child welfare services than for the general child and youth population (Representative for Children and Youth & Office of the Provincial Health Officer, 2015). [...] The purpose of the Commission was to reveal the truth about church-run residential schools, to collect the stories of survivors, to honour the courage and resilience of survivors and to document the individual and collective harms of these schools. [...] To address the legacy of residential schools and to advance the process of reconciliation, the TRC made a series of calls to action on child welfare, education, language and culture, health, justice and the process of reconciliation (TRC, 2015c).