The Outcomes of Indigenous Youth Aging Out of Care and

Methods: A scan of the literature was conducted over a three-month period (December 2022 to February 2023) to understand the scope of the literature that is available until the present year, with no restrictions on date of publication due to the scarcity of the data. [...] To examine the literature on First Nations, Métis and Inuit youth’s (from teenage years to the age of the majority in the province) outcomes of aging out of and exiting child welfare care 2. [...] To discuss implications for research, policy and practice and develop recommendations based on the literature 3.0 Research Methods 3.1 Overview of methods and search strategy A scan of the literature was conducted from December 2022 to February 2023 to understand the scope of the literature that is available and to identify information that can be relevant to the topic of First Nations, Métis and. [...] The child welfare mandates brought increased judgement upon Indigenous parents and families and resulted in the removal of Indigenous children, which led to the Sixties Scoop that entailed the removal of children from their homes – this was not confined to the 1960s, and by the 1990s there was an overrepresentation of First Nations children in the child welfare system (Crowe et al., 2021). [...] One study explained over-representation of Indigenous children in child welfare in the United States of America with statistics as recent as 2009: (1) Canada (5% of the population but make up 18% of the children reported to child welfare); (2) Australia (5% of the population but make up 28% of the children in childcare); and (3) New Zealand (24% of the population but make up 47% of the children in.