Northern Roots will visit your nation and facilitate learning sessions on the possible pathways to taking back jurisdiction over CFS

• The things to be mindful of along the jurisdiction journey 

• Legal expert available to talk through the impacts on funding, treaty-rights, and sustainability

• facilitate membership through decision-making process on pathway to take

• assistance in developing a strategic plan based on your decided pathway 

Members of the team have supported Nations in this capacity before, and can confidently say that Northern Roots will support your Nation in navigating the development of an actionable, results-driven, strategic plan.

• Networked to a multidisciplinary team of qualified specialists and professionals experienced with completing Needs Assessments for complex projects.

Capital Needs Assessment

• • First Nation CFS Reform

  • Jordan's Principle

Community and Resource Needs 

• Community Engagement

• Engagement Summary

• Citizenship Surveys

There are several moving pieces, a lot of legislation, and still more legal decisions to anticipate surrounding child and family services reform in Canada that Northern Roots knows extremely well. 

• Inherent Rights and Traditional Law

• Treaty and Aboriginal Rights

• Suite of CHRT Decisions

• Canada's Constitution

• UNDRIP Act

• Bill C-92

• More...

If you need support in writing proposals, corresponding budgets, reporting to funders and/or citizenship,  Northern Roots is available to assist.

What will the operations look like for your reformed child and family wellness system? 

Northern Roots can assist in developing a Service Delivery Model for your First Nation's Child and Family Services Authority under the leadership of your governance and citizenship.

Your child and family services authority will need policies created to guide the enforcement of your law, regulations to adhere to in practice, and processes to build in consistent and accountable action.

Whether Northern Roots has been with you throughout the reform process, or is joining you at this phase, we are here to assist in sound policy and procedurs development that will proactively set you and your organization up for success.

Northern Roots will facilitate productive meetings with your internal team, technical team, working groups, or negotiation table teams, to get you moving, or moving more efficiently and effectively, in the direction you want to go.

• First Nations, and/or Indigenous Governing Bodies navigating the process of reclaiming jurisdiction of CFS 

• Faciliting Challenging Conversations

• Achieving Institutional Growth