The NCCC was created 19 years after the Caring Society and the Nations in Assembly took a complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that said Canada was discriminating against First Nations Children.

In 2016, the CHRT finally agreed. If you want to see the big picture steps along this path, click "NCCC Timeline".

NCCC TIMELINE

Did you know you can help build out the plan to end discrimination?

The NCCC is now collecting your Nation's suggested amendments to the Loving Justice plan.

Please go to the CHRT 80: Next Steps page to read the plan and make sure you get any suggested amendments to your Chief by March 31, 2026.

AMENDMENT PROCESS

Request a Presentation or Technical Conversation: The Commissioners and their teams are glad to assist your Nation wherever possible. Please do not hesitate to request a conversation with a technician to ensure your Nation has the information it needs to participate in a meaningful way.

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The NCCC has not been able to secure funding to cover its work. All Commissioners and Technicians are being supported through their home Nation or Agency. Our Legal and Secretariat are working without promise of pay. Please donate if you can.

Meet the Commissioners! Just click on a Commissioner below to learn more

Chief Frost s smiling with her shoulder length hair falling on a beaded vest

Chief Beaudin sits at a desk with her hair pulled back, her hands clasped in front of her white shirt under a sand colored blazer. She wears beaded neclace and earings.

Chief Jacko is looking more serious than usual with his hair pulled back against an orange floral background

Chief Monias smiles under his feathered headdress banded in red. His shirt is black with a red yellow and teal beading across the chest

Chief Knockwood smiles while wearing her tall headdress and a black shirt with white feathers on the shoulder

Chief Okemow looks mischievously through her glasses wearing a black top with white earings

The NCCC initially expected to negotiate with Canada to create a plan for Long Term Reform of First Nations Child & Family Services. In Feb 2025, an RFP went out asking for those with an interest and ability to undertake negotiations to apply to work (pro-bono) with the NCCC. The people who stepped up are identified below. Click on a negotiator below to learn more.

In August 2025, CHRT 80 was released by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. CHRT 80 is an order that says the Parties to the original complaint have until December 20, 2025 to submit their versions of a plan to end Canada's discrimination to the Tribunal. This will not be a final document, but a list of solutions the parties would like the CHRT to consider ordering Canada to undertake.

The Negotiators are now helping the NCCC to ensure key components are relayed to the Tribunal. Commissioners also have technical helpers from their own regions.

Khelsilem smiles with his hair pulled back wearing a white buttoned shirt and a black suit jacket

Richard appears misleadingly innocent in a button down shirt and a sweater, not betraying his master negotiation skills

Dear Relatives

Please join us for a cross-country collective prayer for continued support and unity for First Nations children and families in honour of the Spring Equinox.

March 21st marks the first day of the Spring season across Turtle Island and the Northern Hemisphere, welcoming the rebirth of many of Mother Earth’s plants and greenery.

To honour of the beginning of Spring, we ask that you pray for our children and families as the work to end Canada’s discrimination in the First Nations Child and Family Services sector continues.

This Spring our prayers and offerings are to:

Honour the sacred, especially the new babies coming into this world

Honour our Mother Earth

Honour our Knowledge Holders, our Elders.

Honour all we share Mother Earth with:

• the Four-leggeds

• the Two-leggeds,

• the Winged-ones,

• the Swimmers

• the Crawlers,

• And the Plant and Rock People,

• and those Unseen and Unheard

Prayers we all walk in balance, harmony and beauty.

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Our Children Our Way Society & National Children’s Chiefs Commission