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About National Council of Youth in Care Advocates (NCYICA)

The National Council of Youth in Care Advocates (NCYICA) is comprised of provincial and territorial advocates with lived experience in the child protection system, Youth in Care Networks, and key allies. The National Council is also comprised of a diverse membership, including 2SLGBTQIA+, Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour members with lived experience from across the country. Our intersectional work is centered on ensuring that youth in and from care are afforded equitable supports and conditions for success, so they may thrive and not only struggle to survive. The National Council believes that all youth in care deserve ongoing and unconditional love, support and encouragement, just as their peers who are not in the child protection system receive from their parents, friends and communities throughout their entire lives. Our collective work is focused on achieving meaningful change in the mainstream child welfare system, and we acknowledge and recognize the sovereignty of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nations and peoples, their inherent jurisdiction over child and family services, and their approach to raising and caring for children in community, which has existed since time immemorial. We acknowledge that we live, work, play and meet, on the territories and stolen land of Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island, now called Canada.