The Child Welfare TRUTH-Telling Collective

Last call for registrations!

Scan the QR code or visit the link below to register for our webinar on Tuesday, June 2.

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It's time for a student spotlight!

Meet Julie, one of our wonderful MSW students completing practicum at the Collective. Julie is co-presenting our upcoming webinar on mapping live-in family programs across Canada. Also, keep an eye out for her upcoming social media series on child welfare reform!

Thank you all for your overwhelming response to this upcoming webinar! We have opened up more space for anyone still hoping to attend. See the original post below to learn more and access the link to register.

Check out our latest CWTTC webinar coming up on June 2!

This free webinar shares early findings from a national scan of family live-in programs across Canada—services that support parents and children to live together or reunify during periods of transition, support, or reunification. These programs exist across child welfare, housing, domestic violence, perinatal health, substance use, and Indigenous-led systems, but are rarely understood as a connected field.

We look at how these programs are described, categorized, and positioned across systems, and what this tells us about family live-in support as a broader landscape of services.

Scan the QR code or visit the following link to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mapping-family-based-residential-programs-in-canada-tickets-1989176113302?aff=oddtdtcreator

Check out our latest CWTTC webinar coming up on June 2!

This free webinar shares early findings from a national scan of family live-in programs across Canada—services that support parents and children to live together or reunify during periods of transition, support, or reunification. These programs exist across child welfare, housing, domestic violence, perinatal health, substance use, and Indigenous-led systems, but are rarely understood as a connected field.

We look at how these programs are described, categorized, and positioned across systems, and what this tells us about family live-in support as a broader landscape of services.

Scan the QR code or visit the following link to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mapping-family-based-residential-programs-in-canada-tickets-1989176113302?aff=oddtdtcreator

Why do we fund foster care but not the families it replaces? Poverty is a lack of resources, not a lack of fitness.

In Invisible Child, Andrea Elliott shows how the system monitors poverty rather than mitigating it. Alan Dettlaff calls this the "myth of benevolence"—justifying family separation when 70% of cases are actually about "neglect," a label that frequently masks financial hardship.

Poverty is a crisis of means, not character. Separation is no solution.

Let’s talk about the weight of being watched (surveillance). It isn’t just about the scheduled home visits; it’s the quiet anxiety that lingers every time the phone rings or someone knocks on the door. This "lingering impact" changes how a family feels and functions long after a case is closed.

If healing requires a sense of safety and trust, can it truly take root in an environment defined by constant observation?

Explore stories of resilience and survival at: https://www.childwelfarecollective.org/stories

Is the system broken, or is it working exactly as it was designed?

From Residential Schools to the present day, the "colonial blueprint" of family separation has evolved, but the foundation remains.

Can we achieve restorative justice within a system built for assimilation?

See the history for yourself at https://www.childwelfarecollective.org/cw-history

There is a reason this system feels so heavy and quiet. It’s designed to make you feel like your experience is something to hide.

But shame only works if we stay quiet. Speaking your truth isn’t just sharing a story - it’s refusing to let the system control the narrative anymore.

Breaking the silence is an act of resistance.

Tell us: How are you finding your voice today? 👇

Truth first. Healing second. Reconciliation always.

We are honored to hold space for the stories that need to be told. Without the truth, there is no path forward ❤️