YOUTH AMBASSADOR ADVISORY SQUAD AT MACY RELEASES SPECIAL REPORT CALLING FOR CHANGE IN THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM

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 concern for the well-being of young people in care in Manitoba, turned into an innovative peer-led project designed to listen to young people with lived experience, validate and learn from their experiences, amplify their voices, and advocate for meaningful change within Manitoba’s child welfare system. Youth led the work throughout the entirety of the project, including drafting interview questions, interviewing other youth with lived experience, analyzing and collating data, writing portions of the report, contributing to its design, and more.

Read the news release in English here (PDF) or in French here (PDF).

Read Niigan nakeyaa Oshkinawe The Truth of the Youth: Centring Youth Voices and Solutions for Thriving Futures in and beyond Government Care in English here (PDF) or in French here (PDF).

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