Aboriginal kids in government care: 'It's an epidemic'
Our Growing Challenge: More than half of children taken into government care in B.C. are aboriginal, and this childhood development manager says the situation is getting worse

By Cheryl Chan
The Province
October 19, 2010

…. "But the issue for me is this: The kids are receiving safe services from child welfare, but are those services that will lift them into a better life or are they just services that are responding to the crises in their life?"

Turpel-Lafond said there's too much knee-jerk response and not enough prevention. And while there are efforts to work on the issues, they do not match the magnitude of the problem….

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