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Customary Care: Customary Care recognizes the validity of individual cultural practices as a guide for dealing with a variety of problems that our First Nations children and families encounter. Any definition or implementation of Customary Care is within the sole discretion of each First Nations and, as such, each community. Currently Customary Care is recognized in very broad terms within Section 208, Part X of the Child and Family Services Act (CFSA) as “the care and supervision of an Indian or native child by a person who is not the child’s parent, according to the custom of the child’s band or native community.” Expanded Family-Based Permanency Planning in Ontario PROTOCOLS AND TRAINING PROTOCOLS BETWEEN CAS AND ABORIGINAL ORGANIZATIONS Different child welfare agencies and Aboriginal organizations and First Nations communities have developed protocols to support their ability to work together to address child welfare issues. TRAINING ON WOMAN ABUSE (WHERE WOMAN ABUSE AND CHILD SAFETY INTERSECT: BEST PRACTICE INTERVENTIONS FOR KEEPING CHILDREN AND WOMEN SAFE) The purpose of this two-day curriculum “is to evolve best practice interventions by child welfare professionals who become involved with families in which woman abuse is or may be occurring. Emphasis is placed on understanding the etiology and dynamics of woman abuse including the importance of gender-based analysis and power imbalance; the effects of partner abuse on women’s parenting; differential assessment of the effects on children of exposure to woman abuse; lethality; safety planning for women and children; and, interagency collaboration in case planning and intervention. The critical importance of understanding and engaging men who abuse women in assessment and treatment and holding those who abuse women accountable for the impact of their abusive behaviour on women and children is also emphasized” (OACAS, 2010b). 38 PROTOCOLS ON WOMAN ABUSE BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL CAS AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS In 2002, the Ontario government made an explicit commitment to link the child welfare and violence against women sectors, through the Collaboration Agreements
that were intended to support the sectors to collaborate to increase the safety and well-being of children by: > > Helping women to be safe > > Making the best use of the means available to hold the abusive man accountable for harming and being a risk to the women and their children > > Using the agreement as a template for collaboration with other sectors The agreement identified six initial points where VAW and CAS intersect for the purpose of collaboration: > > The CAS has received a referral/report/information that a child may be in need of protection or when the child welfare professional suspects or learns that woman abuse may be/is occurring in the home > > The child welfare professional is assessing safety, and future risk to the child > > The child welfare professional is developing a Plan of Service for a family involving woman abuse > > The VAW worker is trying to determine whether a situation constitutes reasonable grounds to suspect that a child may be in need of protection > > A woman and a child are involved with both a VAW agency and a children’s aid society > > The VAW or child welfare professional is assisting a woman who is trying to negotiate custody and access agreements in order to increase her safety and that of her children SOURCES Aboriginal Affairs Working Group. (2010). Framework for action in education, economic development and violence against Aboriginal women and girls (p.5). Report presented to Premiers on August 4, 2010 at the Meeting of the Premiers and National Aboriginal Organization Leaders, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Ajunnginiq Centre, National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO). (2007). Resilience: Overcoming challenges and moving positively. Ottawa, ON: NAHO. Assembly of First Nations (AFN). (2005). The reality for First Nations in Canada. First Nations Health Bulletin, Summer 2005, 2-3. Ball, J. (2008). Promoting equity and dignity for Aboriginal children in Canada. IRPP Choices, (14)7, 9-10. Brzozowski, J., Taylor-Butts, A., & Johnson, S. (2006). Victimization and offending among the Aboriginal population in Canada. Juristat: Statistics Canada, (26)3, 1-5. 39
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