Care providers of Indigenous children and youth in the child welfare system: a scoping review

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dc.contributor.authorErvin, Amanda R.
dc.contributor.authorDirk, Anika J.
dc.contributor.authorOdekina, Hannah I.
dc.contributor.authorShahrabi, Fatemeh S.
dc.contributor.authorLuck, Chloe E.
dc.contributor.authorGreenshields, Mary C.
dc.contributor.authorVictor, Janice M.
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-30T18:13:19Z
dc.date.available2025-10-30T18:13:19Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionOpen access article. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) applies
dc.description.abstractIndigenous children continue to be significantly over-represented in child welfare systems in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. This scoping review represents a subset of a larger review, the objective of which was to consolidate the extant literature on Indigenous child welfare. The results from the broader review were categorized into 10 different subtopics, of which care provider experiences, the topic of this article, is just one. This review summarizes research pertaining to foster parents and kinship caregivers of Indigenous children within the child welfare system. Key findings included caregivers' financial challenges, rewards of fostering, barriers to providing Indigenous cultural and relational connections, barriers to recruiting Indigenous foster parents and mistrust of the child welfare system. Recommendations emphasized Indigenous-run programmes, education and training for service workers and recruiting foster families willing to maintain youth connections to family and culture. This review further identifies a small but growing collection of Indigenous-led or co-authored scholarship that is bringing more balance and knowledge to a topic still dominated by Western research models and biases.
dc.description.peer-reviewYes
dc.identifier.citationErvin, A. R., Dirk, A. J., Odekina, H. I., Shahrabi, F. S., Luck, C. E., Greenshield, M. C., Victor, J. M. (2025). Care providers of Indigenous children and youth in the child welfare system: A scoping review. Child & Family Social Work. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.13314
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/7210
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.publisher.facultyHealth Sciences
dc.publisher.facultyEducation
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Lethbridge
dc.publisher.institutionRMIT University
dc.publisher.urlhttps://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.13314
dc.subjectCultural connection
dc.subjectFoster parents
dc.subjectFoster placements
dc.subjectIndigenous child welfare
dc.subjectKinship care
dc.subjectScoping review
dc.titleCare providers of Indigenous children and youth in the child welfare system: a scoping review
dc.typeArticle
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