Indigenous children in foster care should stay in home communities, says head of roundtable – CBC

Nov 11, 2024

Province says it’s working to better explore foster care policy through Indigenous lens

A Labrador foster parent and head of a group working to better the Labrador foster-care system is stressing the importance of keeping Indigenous children with Indigenous parents in their Indigenous communities.

Amanda Rich, agency director of Innu Child and Family Services with the Innu Round Table Secretariat — a collective organization of some of Labrador’s Indigenous First Nations — said the group has worked with the Newfoundland and Labrador government to push for more Indigenous children to remain in their communities instead of being sent elsewhere.

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