The Janusz Korczak Association of Canada is proud to announce that Deb Foxcroft has been named the 2025 laureate of the Janusz Korczak Medal in Children’s Rights Advocacy, presented in partnership with the British Columbia Representative for Children and Youth.

Debra (Deb) Foxcroft is the daughter of the late Jeanette and James Gallic, and granddaughter of the late Jessie Gallic (nee, Campbell) and Je (Jimmy) Gallic. She is also a sister, auntie, mother, grandmother and wife; and a proud Tseshaht woman.  For close to five decades, Deb has promoted and protected the rights of children within provincial and federal child and youth care systems. In 1981, Chiefs from Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council (NTC), called upon Deb to design and implement child and family services within their 14 Nuu-chah-nulth Nations, and transfer child welfare services from the province to the Tribal Council. This began a movement of communities beginning to bring their children home to ensure that their children have connection to family, community, culture, language and belonging. In 1985, Usma Nuu-chah-nulth Child and Family Services, B.C.’s first Indigenous Family and Child Services Agency, opened with Deb’s leadership.

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