Child & Family Wellbeing services (also known as child welfare) at NCFST are grounded in our shared understanding that children are our most sacred bundles, and families deserve to be together safely and in alignment with their distinct cultural practices and ways of being. We apply this by providing prevention, early intervention and protection services in relationship with families, their communities and Nations.

Our approach supports families in healing and being together safely, which includes support for the entire family focused on strengthening their circles and developing more tools for lifelong wellbeing.

We acknowledge the historical and ongoing harms of the child welfare system on First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples and strive to practice in ways that are accountable to these impacts through processes grounded in kinship and healing instead of apprehension and separation.