Lessons Learned from the Yellowhead Tribal Services Agency Open Custom Adoption Program

• Published in: First Peoples Child & Family Review
• Main Author: Carrière, Jeannine
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada 2015
• Subjects: scipo; hisphilso; Northwest Territories; Peacock
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7202/1077181ar; http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1077181ar

Following a historic meeting of staff with Alberta Children’s Services and the Yellowhead Tribal Services Agency (YTSA), a pilot program, the YTSA Open Custom Adoption, was developed. The agency initially researched existing adoption models in the Northwest Territories, British Columbia and in the C...