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Brielle Morgan

Work with youth, families, community partners and other journalists to tell stories about our child welfare system. Unpack complexity. Explore ways forward.

Brielle's Latest Articles

B.C. Human Rights Tribunal will hear Indigenous mother’s case against child-welfare agency

By Brielle Morgan ● Child Welfare ● May 7, 2019

This is a ‘groundbreaking’ decision, lawyer says.

B.C. journalists are working together to improve child-welfare reporting

By Brielle Morgan ● Child Welfare ● May 3, 2019

This week we published the first of many collaborative, in-depth stories to come examining this complex system.

The child-welfare system’s full of fed-up women — and it’s no wonder

By Brielle Morgan ● Child Welfare ● May 1, 2019

Ministry audits show foster kids and vulnerable families are getting short shrift.

B.C. government is failing vulnerable kids and families, according to its own audits

By Brielle Morgan, Francesca Fionda, Samantha Garvey, Brittany Hobson & Jonathan von Ofenheim ● Child Welfare ● April 29, 2019

Investigation reveals ministry isn’t meeting critical standards. ‘This should be a four-alarm fire,’ social work professor says.

We’ve made the data from our child welfare audit investigation public

By Francesca Fionda, Brielle Morgan & Jonathan von Ofenheim ● Child Welfare ● April 29, 2019

Tell us how you think the Ministry of Children and Family Development is doing.

B.C. judge breaks with convention in Indigenous child-protection case

By Brielle Morgan ● Child Welfare ● April 4, 2019

Mom suggests a more collaborative approach including Elders, and judge accepts.

Three years later, this mom’s still fighting to get her kids out of care

By Brielle Morgan ● Child Welfare ● March 27, 2019

Being separated from her daughters “never gets easier,” says Justine, whose trial resumes on April 1.

5 ways journalists can improve reporting on the child-welfare system

By Jacqueline Ronson, Brielle Morgan & Lauren Kaljur ● Child Welfare ● March 20, 2019

Care about child welfare? Collaborate with us

By Brielle Morgan ● Urban Nation ● March 13, 2019

Journalists from different media are working together and we need your help.

‘Our women are being hunted and killed’

By Brielle Morgan ● Urban Nation ● February 20, 2019

Indigenous women have led the Women’s Memorial March in Vancouver for 28 years to grieve and call for justice.

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