The Board and Staff of CFS Society commit to:
- Creating harmonious communities built on relationships of mutual respect and shared responsibility for maintaining those relationship into the future.
- No longer letting our fear of not knowing all the answers, or making a mistake prevent us from acting.
- Honouring and full-heartedly embracing Indigenous ways of working, learning, and being.
- Recognizing that training for foster caregivers must include the awareness that Indigenous children and youth in care and their families have complex support needs. Welcoming opportunities to partner with Indigenous agencies to provide training for foster caregivers that produces the best outcomes for Indigenous children and youth in care.
- Moving from being the agents of change to partners, or followers in change.
- Asking rather than assuming when we don’t know something.
- Remembering that feeling uncomfortable with new practices is not a reason to abandon them.
- Acknowledging the actions of the past and their effects on the present rather than merely Apologizing and Regretting them.
- Disrupting the expectation that things must continue to be done the way they have been done since colonialization began.
- No longer defining people from a single, colonial perspective.
Sources: TRC Calls to Action, UNDRIP, Submissions from FPSS Society Board and Staff members
Sitting in corner wringing hands and wondering what to do is not going to advance anything, including yourself. Read the calls to action, and as you go through them one at a time ask yourself, do I belong in the call?