Together, the 120 partner organizations in Campaign 2000 have kept the issue of child poverty on the radar screen for almost 25 •. In the short term, an emergency fund of $500 million in. [...] Since the introduction of the UCCB in 2006, the process of poverty. [...] T1 Family File, 1989 and 2012 4 the unique situation of In First Nations communities, the federal government is mandated to fund the health care, education, social services, indigenous Children and housing and income support programs. [...] The cap on transfers for community services and health expenditures from the federal their families government to First Nations since 1996 has had a distressing effect of limiting the capacity of First Nations communities to meet the needs of their rapidly growing populations.12 “. When I was a child growing up as an For status First Nations children, education and child welfare are Aboriginal in [...] This is despite a complaint first filed in 2007 by the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society (Caring Society) youth- led initiative of Keep the Promise and the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) against the government to persuade our elected representatives of Canada at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal alleging discrimination in the provision of child and family services in First to stop ma