What is Foster Parenting

Fostering is a means of providing children with a safe, loving, caring and stable environment until they can return home to their families or until a permanent plan for these children can take place.

Children are placed in foster care when their families cannot provide adequate care due to conflict and violence in the family home, neglect of physical and emotional needs, substance abuse, child abuse, and mental health problems.

Foster children range in age from infants to 18yrs and come from various cultural, racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Some children are in care voluntarily and others are in care by a court order. Every attempt is made to place sisters and brothers in the same foster home.

Children may remain in care for a few days or for many years depending on their needs, and whether or not families can make the necessary changes to ensure the child’s safety if returned home. A permanency plan for every child is paramount.

Foster parents come from all walks of life. Foster parents are all ages, and at various stages in life.

Fostering can be provided in a variety of ways within the agency. Foster parents are needed to provide care on a full time basis for a long period of time, to provide relief care to other foster parents to provide care just a relief weekend but on a temporary basis, to attend a another foster parents home to provide care in the event of a family emergency, to provide emergency admission care, or treatment foster care..

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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You can now support Lennox and Addington Family and Children’s Services and help support the families and children in our community, simply by shopping online through www.shopandshare.ca

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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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