The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth (MACY) is proud to launch our new recommendation development and monitoring model, The Promise of Seeds, fundamentally shifting how we advocate for and advance the rights and well-being of young people across Manitoba. “Our new recommendation development and monitoring model helps drive the kind of transformational changes needed …
On March 26, 2026, the Youth Ambassador Advisory Squad (YAAS) at MACY released its special report, Niigan nakeyaa Oshkinawe The Truth of the Youth: Centring Youth Voices and Solutions for Thriving Futures in and beyond Government Care. The report is the result of a multi-year project entirely led by youth. What started as a shared …
Today, the Youth Ambassador Advisory Squad (YAAS) at MACY released its special report, Niigan nakeyaa Oshkinawe The Truth of the Youth: Centring Youth Voices and Solutions for Thriving Futures in and beyond Government Care. The report is the result of a multi-year project entirely led by youth. What started as a shared concern for the …
November 20, 2025 – The Canadian Council of Child and Youth Advocates raises the alarm to the concerns about the delays with Indigenous children receiving much needed services under Jordan’s Principle across Canada. Read the media release in English (PDF). Requests or other media inquiries can be directed to Leann Palmer at lpalmer@saskadvocate.ca
Today, Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth Sherry Gott released an annual report summarizing the office’s work during the 2024-25 fiscal year including trends in advocacy, research, quality assurance, public education, youth engagement, serious injury reviews and investigations, and child death reviews and investigations. The Manitoba Advocate is available for media calls, upon request. Read …
Today, Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth Sherry Gott released her office’s special report Natawihisowin Oci Maskikiya (Healing with Medicines): Findings from the First 18-Months of the Serious Injury Reviews and Investigations Program, which introduces findings from the Serious Injury Reviews and Investigation during its first 18-months of operation. Since the program launched on July …
Today, Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth Sherry Gott released the special report Innagakaeyaa Bimadizewin (Towards the Good Life): Unifying Voices for Youth Addiction System Change, an urgent call for action to reform Manitoba’s youth addiction services. The report amplifies the concerns and suggestions of those most affected by the addiction system: young people who …
Today, Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth Sherry Gott released an annual report summarizing the office’s work during the 2023-24 fiscal year including trends in advocacy, research, quality assurance, public education, youth engagement, serious injury reviews and investigations, and child death reviews and investigations. The Manitoba Advocate is available for media calls, upon request. Read …
Today, Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth Sherry Gott released Shifting the Lens: Understanding and Confronting Inequities in Sleep-Related Infant Deaths in Manitoba, a special report which re-examines the issue of sleep-related infant deaths. This report is a re-framed follow-up to the 2020 Special Report Safe and Sound: A Special Report on the Unexpected Sleep-Related …
Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth (MACY) Sherry Gott has released her office’s compliance report. This year’s report, Moving the Dial on Children’s Rights in Manitoba, is the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth (MACY)’s fourth compliance report. It summarizes the assessment of progress made by public bodies in the last fiscal year to implement …
