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The Southern Manitoba First Nations Repatriation Program is a coordinated effort of the Southern Manitoba First Nations communities in response to the widespread adoption of our First Nations Children in the sixties and seventies ('the sixties scoop'). The program seeks to reunite adoptees with their birth families and communities. The Southern Manitoba First Nations Repatriation Program was developed in February 1992, in response to the identified needs of those First Nation members who were adopted or fostered into non-native homes, across Canada, the USA and Europe. It is estimated that approximately 3000 Manitoba First Nations were removed into Adoption and Foster Care from 1950 - 1980. This program is a combined effort of the Southern First Nations Child & Family Services agencies and First Nations Bands of Manitoba to reunite our lost generations. The Southern Manitoba First Nation Repatriations Program's goal is to reunite adoptees and those in long-term foster care with birth families, culture and community. This 'coming together' enhances the social, emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing of the individual, the family and the community and contributes to the long-term health of our Manitoba First Nations. We provide assistance to actively search, refer, and provide birth information and services to adoptees/ long-term foster children and their birth families in order to begin the healing and reunification process of the children, families and communities.
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