“That initial support, while the mother is pregnant, if she is having a hard time, can make all the difference …”
WATCH: Provinces, money remain as barriers to new Indigenous child welfare systems. Story continues below.Through consultations with children’s aid societies, children and foster families over the past year, “[We] just really heard from those people that we need to build a system that really focused on prevention and early intervention in keeping families together,” Jill Dunlop, Ontario’s Associate Minister of Women and Children’s Issues, told HuffPost Canada.
“When women are concerned that there may be a birth alert against them, they’re not seeking the supports that they need, the pre- and post-natal [care], the medical support, because they feared having their child removed from them,” Dunlop said. “So we want this to be a system where they have a voice in this, they are part of the plan.”
“Indigenous women have always had the knowledge, skills and abilities to raise their families. They have an inherent right for jurisdiction over their children.”
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