The Ongoing Legacy of the Residential School System through Child Welfare

Overview

Delivery method

Online

Duration

Audience

All HC and PHAC Employees

Description

This session will look at the direct throughline from the residential school system to the Sixties Scoop through to the overwhelming number of Indigenous children in child welfare today, including the directly related aspect of forced and coerced sterilizations of Indigenous women. CFS worker Roxanne Balan will moderate a discussion between Residential School Survivor Vivian Ketchum and reproductive justice support worker Shelby Ponace.