Does the AFN support Alberta First Nations in their efforts to secure investments in child welfare for Alberta?
Yes, the AFN supports INACs approach of recognizing the Alberta Response model in this region. However, the AFN would be seeking national authorities to refocus the First Nation child welfare program from intervention to protection and emphasize the importance of providing incentives in other provinces to build the required conditions for prevention services to be successfully implemented. • Is there a way to ensure that children do not come into care due to jurisdictional disputes? Yes, a child first principle to resolving jurisdictional disputes has been proposed called Jordans Principle, in memory of a child who stayed in hospital unnecessarily for over two years while governments tried to resolve a jurisdictional dispute regarding the services he needed for home care. What this means is that when a jurisdictional dispute arises between two levels of government regarding who will pay for the services provided to a Status Indian child, and those services are otherwise available to ot
