📣 Our weekly blog is out now! This week examines how systems supporting #youthincare work best when shaped by lived expertise rather than assumptions.
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📣 Our weekly #blog is out now! This week, we explore how #art is transforming advocacy for youth in and from care across Canada, helping share their lived experiences, build community, and influence policy conversations.
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📣 Our weekly #blog is out now! This week, we explore the housing needs of youth exiting care and how landlords, community housing programs, and governments can support housing stability.
Read here ➡️ buff.ly/5iIdi7W
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Too many #youthincare are pushed into poverty as they transition to adulthood. Financial security should be a guaranteed right.
📘 Learn about the Equitable Standards and what #youthincare need to achieve financial stability: buff.ly/MB2I5ua
#StandWithYouthinCare #childwelfare #poverty #youthmatter
Meet National Council Member Kris Wiggins, a passionate #youthincare advocate and Child & Youth Engagement Lead at VACFSS.
Learn more about Kris ➡️ www.ncyica.ca
#StandWithYouthInCare #YouthMatter #ChildWelfare #Advocacy
📣 The NCYICA is now on Instagram! Follow us at ncyica_cndjpec for our lived expertise, advocacy updates, and more.
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📣 Exciting news! The Catherine Donnelly Foundation is supporting us for 2026! Thank you for supporting our lived expertise-led child welfare systems change work.
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Happy New Year from the National Council of Youth in Care Advocates! We appreciate your ongoing support as we continue to advocate for our vision of equitable transitions to adulthood for #youthincare in Canada in 2026. 🤝
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The NCYICA is taking a holiday break ❄️💙 Thank you for your incredible support and for standing with us as we uplift #youthincare voices nationwide. Wishing you a warm, restful and joyful holiday season! ✨
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This holiday season, help us brighten the futures of #youthincare by supporting our work to ensure every young person receives the care and opportunities they deserve.
🎁❤️ Donate ➡️ www.ncyica.ca/donate
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Meet Autumn Sampson, a Youth in Care Alumni Representative at Boyle Street Community Services, where she advocates for youth in care in every space she occupies. To learn more about Autumn ➡️ www.ncyica.ca
#StandWithYouthInCare #YouthMatter #childwelfare #advocacy
Spotlight: Child Welfare has released a guide on how people with lived experience in the child welfare system can work safely with journalists to tell a story ➡️ buff.ly/GHPgMn4
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We’re wrapping up the Fall season blog series, and will resume in the new year. Stay tuned for more stories, insights and resources from lived experience-led advocacy for #youthincare
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Our 2024-25 Annual Report is now available! Take a look at the milestones, challenges, and accomplishments that defined our work in our first year of incorporation as a national non-profit organization ➡️ buff.ly/aYs2R7D
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Meet Anita-Jane (AJ) Legge, a member of PEIYICN, where she uses her lived expertise to build a meaningful #youthincare community in PEI. Learn more about AJ ➡️ www.ncyica.ca
#StandWithYouthInCare #YouthMatter #Childwelfare #advocacy
🗓️ Save the Date! Executive Director @melaniemdoucet.bsky.social will be a panelist at Mount Saint Vincent University on Dec 3. For more info and to register 👉🏼 buff.ly/t9XOQjJ
#StandWithYouthInCare #youthincare #youthmatter #childwelfare #postsecondary #education
Our donation page is now live! Support us in our work to ensure all #youthincare receive the support they need to succeed ➡️ www.ncyica.ca/donate
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Meet our Vice-President Lily Ieroniawakon Deer, a Kanien’kehá:ka woman with lived experience, passionate about decolonial advocacy for Indigenous #youthincare. Learn more about Lily ➡️ www.ncyica.ca
#StandWithYouthInCare #YouthMatter #ChildWelfare #IndigenousYouth
In a guest episode of @caringsociety.bsky.social Beyond Binaries, John Sharpe of @pfyouthnb.bsky.social, an Equitable Standards Partner, talks authentic #allyship in #childwelfare reform.
Listen here: buff.ly/Ia8nft1
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Meet Justin Pothier, a member of @pfyouthnb.bsky.social N.B. Youth in Care Network and a passionate lived expert seeking to improve support for #youthincare nationwide. Learn more about Justin ➡️ www.ncyica.ca
#StandWithYouthInCare #YouthMatter #Childwelfare #advocacy
Meet Delia Tassell, the PEI Youth in Care Network Coordinator, who is passionate about creating systemic changes for future #youthincare generations to thrive. Learn more about Delia ➡️ www.ncyica.ca
#StandWithYouthInCare #YouthMatter #Childwelfare #advocacy
Did you know? Extending post-majority supports for #youthincare significantly reduces costs related to homelessness, poverty, and undereducation. For more info ➡️ buff.ly/F7wwCM4
#StandWithYouthInCare #cndpoli #childwelfare #youthmatter
Meet Susan Russell-Csanyi, a Lived Experienced Advocate who is passionate about turning #youthincare community values into meaningful action. Learn more about Susan ➡️ buff.ly/Cv34NIC
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In 2023 the Ontario government launched the post-majority Ready, Set, Go! Program under the leadership of our member organizations, Youth in Care Canada & Ontario Children’s Advancement Coalition. Learn More ➡️ buff.ly/KzB9kRr
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Meet Janis Tailly-Dion, Advocacy Coordinator at C.A.R.E Jeunesse, where she addresses challenges faced by young people from care in Quebec. Learn more about Janis
➡️ www.ncyica.ca
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In recent years, the PEI Government @peigov.bsky.social has extended support to #youthincare up to age 25 through new legislation and programming informed by the Equitable Standards. Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/lmnGKXQ
#StandWithYouthInCare #youthmatter #childwelfare #peipoli #cndpoli
Meet Jessica Gallant, a member of the NBYICN @pfyouthnb.bsky.social where she pushes for change in child protection policies for #youthincare stemming from her lived experience.
Learn more about Jessica ➡️ www.ncyica.ca
#StandWithYouthInCare #YouthMatter #Childwelfare
Thank you Senators Wanda Benard and @kpateonthehill.bsky.social for championing the Senate study on youth ‘aging out’ of care and supporting our lived expertise-led call for national action.
Learn more ➡️ buff.ly/zyreDRu
#StandWithYouthInCare #youthincare #youthmatter #childwelfare #cndpoli
Meet Michelle Raposo, Program Manager at C.A.R.E. Jeunesse! She ensures Quebec youth in/from care have a voice and advocates for fairer outcomes. Learn more about Michelle ➡️ www.ncyica.ca
#StandWithYouthInCare #YouthMatter #childwelfare
Did you know? Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) has incorporated the Equitable Standards into its Post-Majority Supports Services for First Nations #youthincare.
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