Inuvialuit youth in child and family services will now be supported to remain in their home communities after a new law was signed in Inuvik, N.W.T., on Wednesday. 

The new legislation was implemented by the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC), the government that represents the collective interests of the Inuvialuit — the western Arctic Inuit — in the N.W.T.

This was the first of its kind created by an Indigenous government in the N.W.T., and the first in an Inuit region.

Now, Inuvialuit youth known as beneficiaries, which are members or descendants of a member represented by the IRC, entering child and family services anywhere in the country will be supported so they can remain in