Association of Native Child and Family Services Agencies of Ontario

10/08/2026

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT 📣Meet the master of ceremonies and conference photographer for ANCFSAO’s ICFWB Conference 2026!

We’re thrilled to welcome Jonathan Boyer-Nolan, Anishinaabe from Mississauga First Nation, as our master of ceremonies. In just a few weeks, Jonathan will guide us through the conference program with humour, heart, cultural humility, and a gift for creating meaningful connections. Get to know Jonathan in the slides above! 🎤

We’re also delighted to welcome Nadya Kwandibens, founder of Red Works Photography. With her powerful eye for storytelling and extensive portfolio, Nadya will capture the memorable moments that make our conference so special. Learn more about Nadya in the slides above! 📸

We can’t wait to welcome you! Tickets are already 90% sold out—secure yours today through the link in our bio. 🎟️

10/07/2026

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT 📣

ANCFSAO is excited to announce our master of ceremonies and photographer for the ICFWB  Conference 2026!

Jonathan Boyer-Nolan, Anishinaabe from Mississauga First Nation will be proudly host our schedule events in just a few weeks! He brings humour, heart, cultural humility and authentic connection. Read more about him in the above slides 🎤

ANCFSAO also welcomes Nadya Kwandibens, the founder of Red Works Photography, to our conference support! Nadya has an extensive portfolio and we are very excited to have her capturing all of our upcoming events in just a few weeks! See more about Nadya in the slides above! 📸

We are very excited to welcome you all in just a few short weeks! Tickets are 90% sold out so grab yours today via the link in our bio 🎟️

09/30/2026

In acknowledgement of the impact of Residential Schools on Indigenous communities and in honour of our survivors, join ANCFSAO in wearing an Orange T-shirt this Sept 30th

09/17/2026

ANCFSAO is delighted to share our first keynote speaker announcement!

Roxi Cardinal will present on day 3 of our conference. Read more about her presentation below.

Co-founded by Roxi Cardinal, the Sixties Scoop Network is a survivor led movement built from the grassroots, advancing healing, truth telling, and advocacy for Sixties Scoop survivors across Canada, U.S and overseas. This session traces how survivors built a national community of connection and cultural reclamation, while exposing the direct link between the Scoop’s legacy of removal and today’s child welfare crisis.

Participants will learn how ongoing over representation, cultural loss, and systemic colonial practices continue to harm Indigenous families and how survivor leadership is reshaping policy, prevention, and reform. Grounded in trauma informed and culturally rooted approaches, the session offers a future vision where Indigenous children grow up connected, loved, and held by their Nations, alongside essential guidance for foster parents caring for Indigenous children and training to unlearn anti Indigenous racism and bias within child welfare systems.

See you all October 27-29th in Toronto for the ICFWB Conference 2026!

09/17/2026

For our second keynote announcement, ANCFSAO is excited to have Albert Marshall joining us on day 2 of the conference. Albert will be speaking on the Two Eyed Seeing Approach. Please read below for more information about this engaging keynote presenter!

D. Marshall, Elder, O.C., LLD, is a member of the Moose Clan and a fluent Mi’kmaw speaker from Eskasoni First Nation in Unama’ki (Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia), the territory of the Mi’kma’ki.

Albert D. Marshall is the spokesperson for the Mi’kmaw Nation on matters related to natural resources and environmental issues and serves as a member of various committees and boards. He tirelessly promotes cultural revitalization, the Mi’kmaw language and the need to live sustainably. He is a passionate advocate of cross-cultural understandings of healing and of our human responsibilities to care for all creatures and our Earth Mother. Marshall coined the term Two-Eyed Seeing, or Etuaptmumk, the gift of multiple perspectives in the Mi’kmaw language as a guiding principle for collaborative work and co-learning, braiding the strengths of Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives together for the benefit of all, including our eco-kin. The residential school experience led Marshall on a lifelong quest to connect with and understand both the culture he was removed from, and the culture he was forced into ... and to help these cultures find ways to live in mutual respect of each other’s strengths and ways.

Read more about Albert, register for the conference, and more at the link in our bio! 🎟️ See you in October!

09/10/2026

📣AGENDA IS NOW LIVE! 📣

ANCFSAO is pleased to announce our agenda is now LIVE!

Please head to our conference website via the link in our bio to see a full daily schedule of Keynote presentations, workshops and more!

We cannot wait to welcome you to the Indigenous Child and Family Wellbeing Conference 2026 this October. It is not too late to grab your tickets!

See you there! 🙌🏽📣

09/04/2026

📣LOGO ANNOUNCEMENT📣

ANCFSAO Is pleased to reveal our Indigenous Child and Family Wellbeing Conference 2026 logo! We are delighted to have youth artist Railey Neegan (Railey Neegan) as our winner for this year’s conference logo. Please read through for more information about Railey and this year’s logo. 💫🙌🏽

It is important to ANCFSAO to be able to showcase work of our youth and having new artwork each year that reflects the current topics and issues throughout the sector.

Thank you to Railey for your amazing artwork. 🙌🏽

We cannot wait to welcome you to this year’s conference. Click the link in our bio to register today! See you all October 27-29th! 🪶

08/27/2026

🧺 “What does weaving pathways home mean to you?”

Each year our team works hard to think of a theme that speaks to the current work within the Child Wellbeing and Child Welfare sectors. This year and every year, the theme is something we are passionate about here at ANCFSAO. 💫

We cannot wait to welcome you all to this year’s conference in October. New speakers, new workshops, and new connections are waiting!📣

🎟️EARLY BIRD PRICING ENDS ON AUGUST 31st!🎟️

Email us or hit the link in our bio to secure your ticket today!

08/13/2026

CHILD PROTECTION WORKERS – 2 Positions (Competition # 07-0001)

Niijaansinaanik Child and Family Services is a provincially designated Child Well-Being Agency that provides Prevention, Protection, and Child and Family services that reflect values, beliefs and principles rooted within the Anishinabek culture....

Niijaansinaanik Child and Family Services is a provincially designated Child Well-Being Agency that provides Prevention, Protection, and Child and Family services that reflect values, beliefs and p…