Report of Aboriginal Child Welfare Collaborative Decision-Making Models

We are pleased to provide you with a copy of the Report of Aboriginal Child Welfare Collaborative Decision-Making Models, written for the Law Foundation of BC by Leanne Harder, and released September 2009.

In 2004, 2006 and 2008 the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) made grants to the Law Foundation of BC (“the Law Foundation”) totaling $3,124,000 for the purpose of funding projects which would expand the use of alternative dispute resolution processes in the area of child protection law, particularly for Aboriginal children.  The Law Foundation has funded 19 projects under the Child Welfare Initiative, 11 of which are service delivery projects and the balance of which are to train child protection mediators. 

As part of its evaluation of the projects, the Law Foundation asked each service-delivery project to describe its model for a family decision-making process.  The purpose of this report is to document the collaborative decision-making models that Aboriginal agencies have used in the Law Foundation-funded service delivery projects. 

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