It really needs to start in the home. It really does--giving support. Rather than removing kids, we need to work with them in the home to keep them as a unit. Once you remove the kids, you remove all of what is supposed to be traditional, keeping together. Once you remove them, basically they're no longer able to identify with our cultural background.
We're short on foster parents as it is. Aboriginal foster parents are very hard to find to carry on some of the beliefs and traditions that the kids were not taught by their parents. When they're in care, they're still able to receive that.