Guided by the Seven Grandfather Teachings and the support of our leadership, we deliver intervention and prevention services, advocacy, and navigation assistance within the child welfare system for all Peetabeck Inninewuk. We inspire healthier families by connecting and supporting wellness and healing through our cultural teachings and language.

Mission Statement

To strengthen and continue our Seven Grandfather Teachings: Love, Honesty, Courage, Humility, Bravery, Respect and Truth. Keeping our children, youth, and families together through land base, language, well-being and healthy living.

Vision Statement

First Nation Representatives

First Nation Representative (previously known as Band Representative) support First Nations when children, youth, young adults, and families from their community are involved or at risk of involvement with the child and family services system. First Nation Representative Services is critically important to First Nations and in ensuring that the rights of First Nations children and youth are respected within the child and family services system.

First Nation Representative Services will be First Nations defined and may include engaging with child and family services providers and participating in child and family service matters as set out in provincial, territorial and federal child and family services laws.

First Nation Representative's roles include, but are not limited to:

serving as the main contact between a First Nation and child and family services providers
exercising the rights and responsibilities of the First Nation under provincial, territorial and federal child and family services laws
ensuring that child and family services providers address the real needs of First Nations children, youth, and families, including needs tied to culture, land and geography, and the effects of historical and contemporary disadvantage;
building and maintaining meaningful cultural, family, and community connections for First Nations children, youth, and families involved with the child and family services system
facilitating the repatriation and/or reunification of children and youth in care with their family and First Nation(s)
Supporting First Nations children, youth and families involved or at risk of involvement with the child and family services system outside of their home communities, including working across different regions and jurisdictions
Supporting First Nations youth and young adults with post-majority support services
Participating in child and family services administrative and court proceedings
Accessing legal resources to represent the First Nation's interests in child and family services administrative and court proceedings
Receiving and responding to notices under provincial, territorial and federal child and family services laws
Helping families access prevention supports
Supporting customary care, kinship care and alternative care arrangements
Providing or arranging for alternative dispute resolution (e.g., circle processes and Indigenous approaches)
Monitoring agreements with child and family services providers pertaining to individual children, youth, and families
Participating in the development and monitoring of service plans with child and family services providers, for example: child, youth, or family care plans, safety planning, permanency planning, after care plans and youth transition/post-majority care plans
Developing and monitoring protocols or service agreements with child and family services providers

Prevention Services

As we continue to develop the Prevention Services, our goal is to support the safety and well-being of our children, youth, young adults, families, and the community, with an approach that is culturally appropriate, in their best interests, and in accordance with substantive equality.

In Prevention Services, there are three levels of prevention: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary. Which is evidence-informed and culturally appropriate, address identified risk factors, and build protective factors within families and communities. Prevention is a continuum of care that is based on the needs of the child and interventions can be included at all stages of prevention. Stages of prevention are not mutually exclusive.

Our goal is to promote positive outcomes, child and family service programming may focus on building up a child, youth, young adult, or family's sense of purpose, optimism and hope, resilience, and confidence.

Primary Prevention services are aimed at the community. A community centered approach to prevention programming could include the ongoing promotion, public awareness and education of traditional child caring approaches, healthy families, and child development. Activities could include those that enhance protective factors at a community-level and help to create the network that supports family retention and healing, cultural engagement, connection, and a sense of belonging.

Secondary Prevention services are activated when a child may be at risk of harm or child maltreatment and where intervention could enhance protective factors and remediate the risk Secondary prevention programming could include services that establish and build on secure and responsive social relationships between children and caregivers, and support parents in meeting their family's developmental, health, educational, social, cultural, and spiritual needs.

Tertiary Prevention services target specific families when a child has been identified as at risk of harm or child maltreatment. Tertiary prevention attempts to mitigate the risks of separating a child from their family and end the crisis. Targeted, least disruptive interventions and measures refer to the most appropriate level of service needed by a family whose child(ren) is/are at risk of harm or maltreatment or where maltreatment has taken place. Tertiary prevention programming could include services that provide increased support and/or targeted services with the intention that intervention will enhance protective factors and promote positive outcomes.