Our Services

We are the mandated agency to provide Child Welfare Services in Lennox and Addington County. A “child in need of protection” is defined under Provincial Statute, the Child and Family Services Act.

Our agency is responsible to assess any reported concern of safety or well being occurring in Lennox and Addington County, as set out in Legislation and Provincial Standards, involving a child under the age of sixteen (16) years.

Our services include counseling and support to parents through an assigned staff support, parenting education and skills development through our Beyond the Basics Parenting program, as well as life skills support, homemaking, budgeting and other practical skills development through our Intensive Support Worker services.

Our supported access services also provide an opportunity for parent coaching and strengthening of the parent child relationship.

Our staff may also assist in finding the right external resource for families through our advocacy and community links services.

Each summer our agency offers a summer day camp experience for children in our community through an agency run program KOOL KAMP.

Our agency provides both Foster Care and Adoption Services for children placed in our care, and provides a full range of support services to meet the needs of children where we assume parental responsibilities. Whenever possible, we will work with families towards the placement of children with extended family members or family friends through our Kin Care services when children need to reside outside of the family home.

On a referral basis, we can offer mediation or family group counseling services in response to conflicts that may interfere with the well being or stability of a child in a home or placement.

We also have programs for youth placed under our care to assist them in social skills development and acquisition of important life skills.

Our Family Support Program provides services to children and families in our community where there is a child in the home with a physical or developmental delay. These services include advocacy, referral, support, and brokering on behalf of the child and family. The family Support program also offers groups for teens, and both a March Break and summer day camp experience for children receiving services under this program.

Thank You United Way of KFLA for helping us provide a summer of wonderful childhood memories through our Kool Kamp!

Recently our agency was fortunate to receive a United Way of KFLA One-Time Priority Needs grant to assist with the cost of our Kool Kamp which runs for seven weeks each summer. Kool Kamp provides a safe opportunity for respite for children and families who often struggle with physical limitations, lack of transportation or financial constraints which would normally prevent these children from attending day camp.

Thank You Napanee District Community Foundation!

Thanks to the Napanee District Community Foundation for their generous support, once again in 2010. In 2009, We received a grant to assist with a Positive Parenting Program which has proven beneficial to many families over the past year. For 2010, we were recipients of a $1000 grant to support the beginning of an Adoption Support Program, with the goal of ensuring lasting family relationships for adoptive families through education and support.

Introducing
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Thank You! Ontario Trillium Foundation

Many thanks to the Ontario Trillium Foundation for providing a $75,000 grant enabling the construction of a fully accessible play structure for our new facility. This play structure will accommodate children of all ages and abilities and encourages active play through the use of a puppet theatre, a play road way complete with traffic signs and many other opportunities for learning and playing together.

We would like to thank the many individuals and businesses who helped support the first annual Angel Dance, a benefit in memory of the late Steacy Fralick. The dance took place on March 13th at Selby Hall and included a silent auction and entertainment by Mojo Shooter and Shurtliffe DJ Services. More than $3400 was raised and donated to Lennox and Addington Family and Children’s Services to help support children and youth in our community.

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