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By Brielle Morgan, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, IndigiNews An Afro-Indigenous mother who\u2019s been going head-to-head with the child welfare agency that took her kids away says she feels heard after the province\u2019s highest court sided with her. The B.C. Court of Appeal delivered a ruling in the case last week, declaring that there\u2019s no place for stereotypes in child protection work and social workers don\u2019t have license to discriminate. Justine \u2014 whom IndigiNews is identifying with a pseudonym to protect her children\u2019s privacy \u2014 is an intergenerational survivor of residential \u201cschool\u201d and the child welfare system. In 2016, social workers with Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services Society (VACFSS) seizedJustine\u2019s children. (After a lengthy legal battle, the children were returned to her care in 2019). When Justine received news of… <\/p>\n

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By Brielle Morgan, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, IndigiNews An Afro-Indigenous mother who\u2019s been going head-to-head with the child welfare agency that took her kids away says she feels heard after the province\u2019s highest court sided with her. The B.C. Court of Appeal delivered a ruling in the case last week, declaring that there\u2019s no place for stereotypes in child protection work and social workers don\u2019t have license to discriminate. Justine \u2014 whom IndigiNews is identifying with a pseudonym to protect her children\u2019s privacy \u2014 is an intergenerational survivor of residential \u201cschool\u201d and the child welfare system. In 2016, social workers with Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services Society (VACFSS) seizedJustine\u2019s children. (After a lengthy legal battle, the children were returned to her care in 2019). When Justine received news of... <\/p>\n

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