Association of Native Child and Family Services Agencies of Ontario

Welcome to ANCFSAO

We are a membership association of 14 Indigenous Child and Family Wellbeing agencies mandated to support wellbeing for Indigenous children and their families through the promotion and delivery of culturally based services.

ANCFSAO offers technical expertise and advocacy on all matters relating to child and family wellbeing to the First Nations its member agencies serve.  
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First Nations Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect – 2023

Major Findings

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ANCFSAO Anti-Human Trafficking Symposia – Final Report
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ANCFSAO is honoured to release this final report, culminating three provincial symposia and subsequent consultations held across Ontario on the issues of prevention and the elimination of Human Trafficking and Gender Based Violence.

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This report reflects collective wisdom gathered during these discussions and offers recommendations and steps to move forward together to safeguard our children, youth, families and communities.

We acknowledge and are grateful to those contributed their learned and lived expertise, survivors and members impacted by human trafficking, and we remain committed to ensuring that this work does not end with the release of the report. Rather, that this serves as a confirmation of the increasing need for funding, services and training in order to combat human trafficking., particularly as it disproportionately impacts First Nations, Inuit and Metis children, youth, families and communities.

Chii Miigwetch to the presenters, participants, Elders and Knowledge Carriers and Keepers for sharing your knowledge, medicines and ceremony to guide our work in a good way.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2025

ANCFSAO stands with our First Nation communities and Child & Family Wellbeing Agencies to honour Indigenous children that were taken away through the Residential School System, their families and communities: a time to acknowledge the legacy of historic harms, generational impacts and discrimination that Indigenous communities continue to face. Today we reinforce our commitment to working with our member agencies, their First Nations and sector stakeholders to reduce the overrepresentation of Indigenous children in care.

To learn more about the orange shirt becoming a symbol of solidarity with residential school survivors visit orangeshirtday.org/phyllis-story/

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Registration is open for the 2026 Indigenous Child & Family Wellbeing Conference

Join us in Toronto, October 27–29, for three days of learning, collaboration and connection. Register now—early bird pricing ends soon.

ANCFSAO invites you to join Indigenous child and family wellbeing leaders, practitioners, youth advocates and community members from across Ontario and beyond as we gather at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North.

Register online : Indigenous Child and Family Wellbeing Conference 2026