The Guiding Principles of the First Nations Standard

The standards apply the reciprocal relationships of collective responsibilities for childcare practices among extended families and communities. The collective responsibilities of First Nations secure and ensure the safety and stability of First Nations children and families.

The standards are in keeping with the sacred kinship connections and relational

bonds that are essential for the child development and child care practices of First Nations

The standards respect the use of cultural protocol to build connections of reciprocal responsibilities among families and support services for the restoration of healthy communities

The standards are premised on the relational worldview that all causal factors are interdependent and thus services will correspond in holistic and collateral decision-making and problem solving.

6 Practice Elements: Understand the position of each family

member Finding exceptions to the maltreatment Discover family strengths and resources Focus on goals Scale safety and progress Assess willingness, confidence, and capacity

The two child intervention practice alignment

4 direction Restoring the broken cycle of our people

Family mapping Connections Shared Responsibility

“It takes a community to raise a child”