Foster families are playing an increasingly important role in supporting the efforts of children and youth to maintain their relationships with their families of origin. In these situations, planned long-term care, with the aim of improving relationships and relationships with birth families, is considered a reasonable sustainability option. One of CAS`s main support for the transition to independence is the Policy of Continuous Assistance and Youth Support (CCSY). CCYS provides financial, emotional and other support to young people who have left the coaching staff until the age of 21. The Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services recently announced another option under the CCSY Directive, called the Stay Home for School Agreement. This policy helps young people to live with their host families after Grade 18. Young people who are self-reliant also have access to counselling and health services through the Aftercare Benefits Initiative. The family structures of the First Nation, Métis and Inuit (FNMI) differ from the nuclear family typical of Western culture. FNMI families have strong family values, are often expanded and share a common responsibility towards children.
FNMI families can be related by blood, but also linked by clans or other social structures. This collective responsibility for the education of children is called habitual care. As a good parent, children`s aid associations begin to help young people develop life skills during their early youth. Staff from children`s aid organizations meet regularly with youth and their facilitators to develop goals and link them to the resources needed to achieve these goals. Long before it was really time for young people to step out of the leadership, children`s aid organizations helped them live independently, either alone or with others. Formally Customary Care is a legal agreement between the First Nation (band), Biological Parents, Customary Caregivers and the Child-Welfare Agency involved. The usual care in child welfare is also seen as less contradictory and more oriented towards strengthening community strength. Children in formal child care systems are not subject to the same time constraints as in other forms of child care.
This lack of time constraints allows children to stay connected to their parents while parents heal. Facilitators considering the legal possibility of caring for a child or adolescent should first discuss this option with the child welfare worker who cares for the adolescent. Children`s aid may offer a family reunion or case conference, and an assessment is required for facilitators. The guardian is encouraged to seek independent legal advice to understand the effects of child custody. Short-term subsidies or other financial aid may be available to support supply. A court order formalizing legal custody is then made. The collective care of children without intervention in childcare. READ: Friends and Family First: How Child Aid Keeps Children Out of Custody If an Aboriginal parent (s) is unable to care for their child, a family member or First Nations community takes care of the child (temporarily). This is called personalized care. The child stays with his guardians until the parents agree to return their child to them. The usual care is supposed to be a short-term situation, although in some cases the child stays with his or her guardians for the long term. Caregivers work closely with the child`s biological parents and First Nations to help the child maintain and honour their family and community relationships and ties.
