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The Forgotten Ones: The Impact of COVID-19 on Black Families and Black Child Welfare Survivors Dealing with Ontario’s Child ‘Protection’ System

The Collective of Child Welfare Survivors (“CCWS”) is a grassroots organization that provides various support for child welfare survivors primarily between the ages 8-29 years old and their families, particularly those who are Black, Indigenous, and racialized. CCWS currently works in partnership with the Black Legal Action Centre (“BLAC”) and other critical partners related to the child welfare experience.

Read The Forgotten Ones Report here.

And check our CCWS website below.

 

The Forgotten Ones

The Black Legal Action Centre

Established in 2017, the Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC) is an independent not-for-profit community legal clinic that combats individual and systemic anti-Black racism by providing free legal services, conducting research, developing public legal education materials, and engaging in test case litigation and law reform.