Resources For Children & Youth in care
As of April 1, 2022, post-majority support services assist youth aging out of care and young adults formerly in care across all provinces and in the Yukon, from the age of majority up to and including the age of 25. This is part of the immediate measures being taken toward a larger reform of the First Nations Child and Family Services (FNCFS) Program. Please visit the links below for more detailed information.
Overview of the Post-Majority Support Services for First Nations Youth and Young Adults
Funding for Indigenous youth aging out of care
Know Your Rights: Ontario’s Child Welfare System
Not sure of your rights in Ontario’s child protection system? Here is a general document that provides that information. Please see the Child, Youth, and Family Services Act, 2017 for more detailed information.
Rights in Ontario’s Child Welfare System (PDF):
Unsure of what happens during a child protection investigation or what is meant to happen in the lifetime of a child protection case? Here is a general document that provides that information. Please see the Child, Youth, and Family Services Act, 2017 for more detailed information
Navigating Ontario’s Child Protection Investigation (PDF):
Madness, Anti-Blackness, and the Institutional Gaslighting of Care
At a time when Ontario group homes are being exposed for using restraints and forced medication on children in their care, this CCWS public talk confronts the maddening violence of family policing. This panel explores how systems like child welfare destabilize and dehumanize Black children, youth, and families — not just through material separation, but through constant contradiction, institutional dishonesty, and systemic gaslighting.
Family Policing as Maddening Systems
Themes:
Anti-Blackness in child welfare, Mad studies & psychiatric violence, Survivor testimony,Mental health & family policing, Institutional gaslighting
Speakers:
Dr. Idil Abdillahi (she/her) – Academic, abolitionist, mad scholar
Thaila Dixon (they/them) – Child welfare survivor & organizer
Tisheena Burnette (she/her) – Black child welfare survivor & advocate