Manitoba Task Force on Educational Outcomes of Children in Care : Report for the Minister of Education and Advanced Learning and the Minister of Family Services

VOICES: Manitoba’s Youth in Care Network We also wish to acknowledge the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and the authors of the report The Educational Outcomes of Children in Care in Manitoba for their work in creating the report. [...] The MCHP was asked to identify factors that contribute to the educational success of children in care in Manitoba and to make recommendations regarding what schools, school divisions, and Manitoba Education and Advanced Learning could do to contribute further to the educational success of children in care. [...] In June 2015, in response to the MCHP report, the Manitoba government launched a provincial Task Force on Educational Outcomes of Children in Care (the task force), bringing together education and family services experts to identify recommendations on both immediate and long-term actions the government, school divisions, and CFS Authorities and agencies can take to address the poor outcomes of chi [...] Report for the Minister of Education and Advanced Learning and the Minister of Family Services 7 The impacts of disconnection and shaming were compounded by the physical and sexual abuse many children experienced at these schools, often by multiple perpetrators and many for the entire duration of their childhood. [...] The overrepresentation of Indigenous children in care is addressed in the first Call to Action in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada’s 2015 Calls to Action report, which states: We call upon the federal, provincial, territorial, and Aboriginal governments to commit to reducing the number of Aboriginal children in care by:.