Chapter from The Social Determinants of Health in Manitoba edited by Lynne Fernandez, Shauna MacKinnon, and Jim Silver.
Material presented as exhibit 130 from the Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry.
IPA Backgrounder, vol. 10, no. 1, February 1998, pp. 1-24
Description
Disputes issues discussed in the 1997 national inquiry report, Bringing Them Home, such as specific cases, comparison of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal child removal and the claim of genocide.
Secretariat of National Aboriginal & Islander Child Care Inc. (SNAICC)
Description
Brief discussion of issues as well as recommendations in seven key areas: access to technology; service workforce and funding arrangements; mental health; family violence; prevention and early intervention; support for kinship carers; and family and cultural contact, reunification and permanent care.
Child Abuse Prevention Issues, no. 20, Autumn, 2004, pp. 1-39
Description
Reviews legislation and services provided in Canada, United States, Australia and New Zealand, and suggests new approaches to family and community well-being.
Research Brief (National Child Protection Clearinghouse) ; no. 8, 2007
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nicholas Richardson
Leah Bromfield
Alexandra Osborn
no. 8
Description
Summarizes and assesses 13 Australian research studies grouped into four themes: measuring wellbeing, outcomes for children in care, service systems responses, and recruiting and supporting Indigenous caregivers
Looks at shortcomings of the current system, provides statistical data, and advocates for changes that will reduce the number of children in care.
Follow-up to the 2016 report.
Discusses the impacts of colonization, intergenerational trauma and other issues which result in over-representation in the child welfare system.
Duration: 41:22.
Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 49, no. 2, 2003, pp. 155-163
Description
Discusses how many Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families and cultural heritage as a result of Australian government laws, policies and practices.
Discusses how the Irish have facilitated litigation in the interests of justice regarding the removal of children from their families and how that concept could be applied in Australia.
Looks at a three day event that brought together community healing programs and initiatives from around Australia and gave the opportunity for participants to meet the people that deliver the programs.
A response to Brendan Nelson's apology to the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal Australians criticizing him for ignoring Aboriginal concepts of the time and perpetuating the attitudes and discourses that led to the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families in the first place.
Child Abuse & Neglect, vol. 37, no. 1, Special Issue on Risk and Resilience in the Context of Child Maltreatment (Part 1), January 2013, pp. 47-60
Description
Looks at a large sample of Aboriginal children and family services to find out what influences the decision to place a child in foster care at the end of a child maltreatment investigation.
Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 22, no. 59, Special Issue: Who Will Look After the Children?, 1998, pp. 8-19
Description
Discusses lasting effects on Australian Aboriginals who, as children, were taken away from their parents and the present day phenomenon of returning to one's Aboriginal family.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 21, no. 6, November/December 1997, pp. 15-20
Description
Conference highlighted the challenges related to removal of Indigenous children and introduction of new laws intended to protect children in Australia.
A collection of materials on the attitudes and practices associated with the removal of Aboriginal children from their homes. Includes representative testimonies from those who were separated from their families and communities.
Discusses the 35 recommendations accepted by the government to address the lasting effects on children, families and communities caused by the forced removal of children under the Aborigines Protection Act 1909.