Monday, January 03, 2011

Harvard Psychologist Gives Canada’s Family Courts a Failing Grade: Foster Care News

While conducting regular research into child weflare in Canada and the related courts the Foster Care Council of Canada discovered the following assessment of Canadian family court custody reports and assessments by Harvard Psychologist and Researcher Paula J. [...]

VIA JOHN DUNN
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Foster Care Council of Canada

The Council announced  the formation of a permanent, citizen based, five-year review committee, and invites the public to join. The “Ride for Accountability of Children’s Aid Societies” (RACAS)  is an awareness bicycle ride from Ottawa to Windsor led by John Dunn of the Foster Care Council of Canada. Updates on this [...]

The following is a letter to the editor and to reporter Tanya Talaga of the Toronto Star in response to the article about the Ministry of Children and Youth Services finally naming 3 people to the Commission on Sustainable Children’s Aid Societies.
As a former foster child and executive director of the Foster Care Council of [...]

I would like to suggest to you during the 2010 mandatory review of the Child and Family Services Act by your Ministry that offence provisions be added to the Act to ensure that everyone complies with all parts of the Act in both the public interest, and in the best interests of children and youth in care.

Come on out to show your support for the need for external accountability of Children’s Aid Societies

The question then remains… why don’t Children’s Aid Societes let former foster children obtain copies of all of their files once they leave foster care? Are they trying to protect themselves from successful court actions because the files in their highly secure archives contain so much evidence of abuse and neglect while in foster care that the actions would be quite successful?

Hop on a thirteen minute, virtual subway ride through the life of an Ontario foster child at the following link.

Here is a poem my mother wrote after loosing myself and my brother to foster care. She suffered from depression and alcoholism at the time of our apprehension. (1972)

The issue of conditions being imposed on the use of federal Social Transfer Payments was raised in Chapter 1 of the 2008 Federal Auditor General’s Report. The “Main Points” section of the report states the following;