OACAS and Children’s Aid Societies welcome the Chief Coroner’s Expert Panel Report, “Safe With Intervention: Report of the Expert Panel on the Deaths of Children and Youth in Residential Placements.” We are deeply saddened by the deaths of these young people in residential care. Many parts of
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Last year, almost 25% of children and youth needing temporary out of home placements in Ontario lived with kin families. The important role of kin families in child welfare was celebrated during Kin Awareness Week, which took place this week, September 24 to 28. “It is good
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Ontario’s Children’s Aid Societies will soon be undertaking a self-assessment process to evaluate their capacity to serve and support LGBT2SQ+ staff, volunteers, families, and youth. The tool, which will ask agencies to review their practices in a range of domains including governance and policy, organizational environment and
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Imagine being an 18-year-old boy, in a crowd of 130 young people of African Canadian descent and more than 70 adults. A microphone comes your way, and you are given the opportunity to share your experiences of the child welfare system. You talk about your foster home.
Read more →Today Premier Ford announced his Cabinet at Queen’s Park and the portfolio for children and youth has been appointed to Hon. Lisa MacLeod (Minister of Children, Community and Social Services and Minister Responsible for Women’s Issues. Ms. Amy Fee was also announced as the Parliamentary Assistant to
Read more →June 27, 2018 In recent weeks, news reports of children being detained and/or separated from their parents in the U.S has gravely concerned Children’s Aid Societies across Ontario. As agencies and individuals who support and care for children, we believe strongly that children should not be subjected
Read more →The Trump administration’s current separation of children from their migrant parents has put children and immigration issues in the spotlight. But few people understand the extent to which children with unresolved immigration status issues are a growing issue for Canada. To meet this expanding need, Peel Children’s
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Talking about and confronting race is often difficult. Why is this the case for so many of us who are white, and what can we do about it, to address racism? For over 20 years, I have worked to understand racism within social work practice, and helped
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The African Canadian Child Welfare Provincial Advisory Council (PAC) is a group made up of African Canadian community members tasked with providing recommendations and advice to the board, executive leadership and staff of the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies (OACAS) on all child welfare matters affecting
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On January 1, 2018, Ontario’s child protection legislation was amended to extend child protection services to youth aged 16 and 17, a change that was long advocated for by OACAS and Ontario’s Children’s Aid Societies (CASs). An early analysis by OACAS and Children’s Aid Societies reinforced much
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