Honouring their spirits

In response to the death of Phoenix Sinclair, on March 21, 2006, the Minister of Family Services and Housing called for an independent review of Manitoba's child welfare system. This report represents one part of the review: the review the deaths of children and youth known to the child welfare system who died between 2003 and March 2006. The report presents summary information in terms of data, themes, observations of commonalities, trends and patterns. It also includes a number of recommendations from the review team which are related to interjurisdiction, suicide prevention, mental health services, age of majority planning, children and youth, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), standards, CFSIS, the Joint Intake and Response Unit (JIRU), resources/training, rural/northern/remote issues, crises support, children with disabilities, Healthy Child Manitoba, risk assessments, high-risk women, case management, prevention, the Mobile Crisis Stabilization Unit, health services, and the Chief Medical Examiner's Office.--Includes text from document.