Building capacity & care in child welfare services
Forging stronger child welfare systems across the Prairies through collaboration, innovation, and Indigenous partnership.
Opportunities within Shifting and Caring Landscapes
2026 Prairie Child Welfare Consortium Symposium
The field of child welfare is rarely static. Today, we find ourselves navigating a landscape that is shifting beneath our feet. This change is driven by legislative shifts, a deeper commitment to reconciliation, and evolving community needs.
At this gathering, we are focusing on the opportunities found within these transitions. By centering our work on caring landscapes, we aim to explore how we can build systems that are deeply rooted in compassion, cultural safety, relational practice, and love.
About Us
The PCWC is a unique tri-provincial and northern, multi-sector and cross-cultural child welfare network in Canada.
Partners include the prairie based social work programs, provincial ministries, and community agencies. Our goal is to build capacity, at the different levels of all systems that support children, families, and communities in the Prairie Provinces, while ensuring respect for needs for engagement of First Nations and Métis Communities in the delivery of child welfare services. The PCWC works to influence, advocate, and change education, training, research, policy and practice/service delivery through collaboration, innovation and partnering.
Resource Library
Explore our resources to help find what you’re looking for.
Our resources support worker wellness, culturally grounded and Indigenous-led practice, and reflective, ethical child welfare work. They highlight tools for addressing burnout, vicarious trauma, and biases in assessment, and offer guidance on leadership, supervision, and youth and family support. We also share teaching materials, updated research, and examples of innovative, community-based practice across the Prairies, grounded in TRC principles and the history and vision of the PCWC.