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Stephanie is an Indigenous child welfare practice expert specializing in the development of child welfare governance systems and frameworks. She is a MediateBC child protection mediator, child wellbeing and child rights researcher, policy analyst, and collaborative practice facilitator in the field of Indigenous Child Welfare.
Stephanie’s prior roles have included responsibility for the evaluation and review of multiple First Nation’s child welfare practice and programming designs under provincial and federal child welfare law; service delivery principle design; and policy development supporting the inherent right of Indigenous peoples to care for their own.
She has managed clinical practice teams of social workers and managers working in support of culturally informed frameworks of Indigenous well-being.
Stephanie teaches and facilitates conference presentations on the subject of Indigenous Child Welfare and consults on numerous projects enabling the Federal legislation into practice for Indigenous communities, including project design and training for organizations, institutions and governments on Indigenous rights, Children’s Rights, and Indigenous child welfare practice.
Stephanie has over 17 years of collaborative work with Family Law, Child Welfare and Justice systems, including co-authoring three research papers with Indigenous communities and the Ministry for Children and Family Development, agencies and organizations; authoring curriculum and instructing the child protection components of the Aboriginal Social Work Program for practitioners and supervisors.
In her graduate research, Stephanie focused research on the readiness of Indigenous communities to facilitate child welfare jurisdiction and the protective environments of children. She has been a researcher and provincial subject matter expert on the Indigenous child welfare practice, First Nations Courts, Collaborative Practice Models and Traditional Decision-Making processes. Her current research focuses on the development in Indigenous child wellbeing indicators and the subsequent funding applications for Canada under the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal orders to end discrimination in child and family services.
Stephanie has held positions on the board of the McCreary Centre Society for Children’s Research, as the Vice President of the Board Metis Commission for Children and Families British Columbia, co-chair of the board for the International Institute of Child Rights and Development, and committee memberships on child welfare, child rights and Indigenous community capacity development. and is currently the co-chair of the International Institute for Child Rights and Development.
Stephanie manages a homestead in British Columbia and travels between the farm and her home on Vancouver Island.

Cameron Fulton joined Klahoose First Nation as our Chief Finance Officer at the end of December 2023.
“Hi everyone! A little about me, I'm the new guy and excited to be working as the CFO for KFN.
I'm a Chartered Professional Accountant, and prior to working for KFN, I was the Assistant to the CFO for British Columbia's largest First Nation Cowichan Tribes.
I'm a father of three, I enjoy growing things in my garden, I like riding my bike and exploring the natural beauty of Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands.
Thanks and I’m looking forward to meeting you all!”