In September, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ordered the
federal government to pay $40,000 in compensation to First Nations
children — along with some of their parents and grandparents —
apprehended from their families and communities through the on-reserve
child welfare system and in Yukon.

The
Caring Society, with the support of the Assembly of First Nations,
filed a human rights complaint in 2007 that led to the compensation
order.

Cindy Blackstock, the Caring Society’s executive
director, said help with financial literacy was one of the top needs
identified by First Nations youth in care during consultations around
the human rights tribunal compensation order.