Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, our old foster care system, you know, there wasn't -- from all of the information that I've been provided and the work that's been done within child and family services is to work with the family to find now somebody who is either within the family, next of kin, a close relative, another Indigenous person. But those families also have to, you know, go through the foster family. We have not a lot of Indigenous foster families, and the more Indigenous foster families and the more family members, when they know that there's children that are possibly, you know, that may be needing to support their own family can become foster families and be flexible, like, within child and family services to say that, you know, like, we'll take on our -- like, your nieces, our nephews, our cousins' children, and child and family services will work with those families. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Lesa Semmler on Question 277-20(1): Government of the Northwest Territories Child and Welfare Services
In the Legislative Assembly on June 10th, 2024. See this statement in context.
Question 277-20(1): Government of the Northwest Territories Child and Welfare Services
Oral Questions(reversion)
June 10th, 2024
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