Birth Alerts
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After her daughters were taken, Indigenous mother wins landmark human rights case
The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has found VACFSS discriminated against the woman while her four children were in ‘care’ and ordered a $150K fine
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After generations of stolen kids, ‘powerful changes’ to ‘B.C.’ law set to return child welfare jurisdiction
Amendments to provincial child welfare legislation, introduced on Wednesday, were celebrated by Indigenous leaders as an important first step to righting wrongs of the past
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Gitxsan community stops B.C. social workers from taking child back into ‘care’
‘We’re sick and tired of generation after generation being lost in the system and not knowing who they are and never coming home,’ says Kolin Sutherland-Wilson.
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Birth alerts follow you ‘for the rest of your life’ says mom whose baby was taken
Eight years after her son was apprehended at a Calgary hospital, this mom says she lives with severe anxiety, nightmares, intense flashbacks and questions about why her family was separated instead of supported.
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Breaking: New class action alleges birth alerts are ‘a product of the state’s colonialist and paternalistic attitude’
Filed in B.C.’s Supreme Court, the proposed action marks the first step in a ‘national litigation effort’ representing parents subjected to birth alerts across Canada.
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‘The child-welfare system is residential schools part two,’ says lawyer
How Black and Métis lawyer Roslyn Chambers is holding colonial courts to account
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‘Keep families together’: Moving beyond racist notions of neglect in child welfare
Experts discuss colonial failings and ways to support families during Beyond Neglect series.
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Webinar series tackles ‘colonial’ and ‘racist’ concepts of neglect in child welfare system
April 21-23 series will feature a diverse panel including Indigenous youth and Elders.
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B.C. ‘open’ to apologizing for birth alerts, says First Nations Summit
Province won’t confirm, but says it’s ‘engaging with Indigenous leadership.’
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Birth alerts banned in B.C., but trust still a barrier for Indigenous parents
‘Much more money’ needed for preventative services, says Mary Teegee.