IPAC Manitoba Event Debrief
On February 2nd, 2017, IPAC Manitoba hosted a full day discussion of how the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission can be implemented in the Child Welfare System in Manitoba.
Highlights
- Communities should have greater control over how things are designed and delivered (they have ideas on solutions; government needs to allow those solutions);
- Flexibility is needed to respond to different community realities;
- Current government institutional and program barriers are preventing communities from achieving success; and
- Need to shift resources away from funding reactionary measures to focus on prevention.
Speakers
- Florence Paynter, Elder
- Cora Morgan, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, Children’s Advocate
- Bert Crocker, Southern First Nations Network of Care
- Diane Kelly, ADM, Child and Family Services, Province of Manitoba
- Tara Petti, Southern First Nations Network of Care
- Billie Schibler, Metis Child and Family Services Authority
- Brian Hart, First Nations of Northern Manitoba Child and Family Services Authority
- Patricia Cox, General Child and Family Services Authority
- Sandra (Sandie) Stoker, All Nations Coordinated Network of Care
- Morgan and Krystyne, former children in care
- Diane Redsky, Executive Director, Ma Mawi Chi Itata Centre
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