Author: collectiveofcws
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Group Homes
June 22, 2022 RE: Global News, APTN Group Home Investigation Article To child welfare survivors, community members, stakeholders, and the general public, On May 28, 2022, Global News released an article titled, “Inside Ontario’s ‘scary’ child-welfare system where kids are ‘commodities” which was a joint investigation between Global News and APTN authored by Andrew Russell,…
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Community Space for Black Mothers/Femme Parents
Every third Wednesday of the month from 6-9PM, CCWS is offering a virtual community support space for Black mothers/femme parents impacted by child welfare. This space includes those who were placed in child welfare and/or those who were put through child protection investigations. Open to participants between the ages 16-35 years-old. Sign-up doesn’t renew, and…
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Public Launch Letter
September 27, 2021 To child welfare survivors, community members, and interested stakeholders, We are a QTBIPOC child welfare survivor-led grassroots organization called the Collective of Child Welfare Survivors (CCWS), in partnership with the Black Legal Action Centre and funded by the Ontario Trillium Fund’s Youth Opportunity Fund. Today, we are officially re-launching ourselves in a…