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British Columbia Child Welfare Policies And First Nations Marla Clark British Columbia Child Welfare Policies and First Nations In Canada the Constitution Act of 1867, which excluded First Nations from sharing power and decision-making determined federal and provincial responsibilities for First Nations. Since confederation the federal government is responsible for First Nations people, with the exception of child welfare, which was past to the jurisdiction of the provinces (Durst, 2002). In British Columbia child welfare and child protection falls under the Child, Family, and Community Services Act [CFCSA], this includes First Nations child welfare and child protection (Uhlemann, Turner, 1998). CFCSA has provisions that pertain only to First Nations children; these provisions however, according to the Task Force on Safe Guards for Children and youth in Foster or Group Home Care [TFSC] (2000) there are gaps between the policies and practice of these policies. Canada and British Columbia’s history involving First Nations child welfare is one of child abuse, including physical abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and physical neglect to institutional abuse. In this report I will focus on the history of First Nations child welfare policies, how they were abusive, to present-day policies. I will include how these policies have affected First Nations children and their communities. As well, the different approaches, theory, and research about working with First Nations people will be included. I chose this topic for a couple of reasons, first, my history with the First Nation community, as well as the effects foster care has had on First Nations children that I have personally witnessed. I also believe that by writing about the First Nations child welfare policies, I will get better insight to the problems First Nations people have due to their experiences with child welfare, and I believe this will help me in my future practice with First Nations clients. British Columbia’s child welfare policies echo the practice of cultural colonization and assimilation. Through out Canada’s history, services to First Nations children were provided by non-native people, beginning with the Christian missionaries, and the residential school system, followed by placing First Nations children into non-native foster homes or adopted into white families (Abosolon & Macdonald, 1998). Policies such as the Indian Act of 1876, which gave the federal government control over culture, social, economic and political activities of First Nations people, and the residential school system, instilled a sense of loss within the First Nations communities and reflected the desire of the dominate society to assimilate the First Nations people into the colonists worldview (McKenzie, 1995). |
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