Are you over the age of 18 and have lived in systems of care for at least one year? Discover your passion for Ontario’s skilled trades with a free 2-day training.
Time, Date and Venue:
August 13 & 14, 2024
8am – 4pm
Millwrights Local 1916
63 Ditton Drive, Hamilton, ON
Coffee, light snacks, and lunch provided. Hard hat and work boots included.
Register now at: childwelfarepac.com/register
Ontario Education Championship Team (OECT) is going to the National Bank Open, Roger’s Cup Tennis Tournament!
🎾 Join us for a day of fun, enjoy the tennis game and learn about the sports industry🎾
*Must be ages 14- 29, residing in Peel/Halton/Dufferin region.
*Food and refreshments are provided 🥤
* Games and prizes to be won!! 🎁
*Presto or volunteer drives are available (drives are a last resort, please discuss transportation options with your family/caregiver/worker/CAS staff prior to reaching out for volunteer drives as capacity is limited! TY)
*Volunteer opportunities available for volunteer hours
🗓 Date: Thu, August 8th, 2024
⏰ Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
📍 Location: A bus will be leaving from the Peel CAS Trailblazers Youth Centre (25 Capston Dr, Mississauga, ON L5W 0H3) and taking us to Sobeys Stadium in North York: 1 Shoreham Dr, North York, ON M3N 3A6, and back.
REGISTRATION LINK: https://bit.ly/TENNIS-EDU
This event is hosted by OECT Peel-Halton-Dufferin CAS. Register by Friday, July 19th, 2024.
For any questions or inquiries contact:
Halton CAS: Aos@haltoncas.ca
Peel CAS: MConstantine@peelcas.org
Dufferin CAS: niketa.peters@dcafs.on.ca
OECT Youth Website: https://www.inittogetheryouth.org/
The Government of Canada is working to implement a new fund to make it easier for youth in Canada to get the mental health care they need. The Youth Mental Health Fund aims to break down barriers to access mental health care for youth.
They are consulting with people 16 years of age and older to gather perspectives on priority areas to improve youth mental health. Your feedback will help guide the focus of the new Youth Mental Health Fund, including decisions on the types of activities that could be funded.
Health Canada is seeking your input on the types of activities that could be funded through the Youth Mental Health Fund, such as helping youth and their families navigate and seek mental health care, increasing youth suicide prevention supports and services and more.
Share your ideas online by filling in filling in the following questionnaire: https://healthcanada.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7ZLv4931gtmzqIK?Q_Language=EN. All responses are anonymous.
For more information, please check out Consultation on the Youth Mental Health Fund – Canada.ca.
The Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada (CAFC) is giving the opportunity to all youth entrepreneurs with lived experience in the child welfare system to promote their businesses.
CAFC will be launching a directory of youth-led businesses at Stand Up For Kids Night – our annual recognition night – on June 20 that will be shared with supporters, donors, allies and other youth.
To submit your business for inclusion in the directory, please complete this form: https://lnkd.in/giDZ4-Wu. Click the link to submit your business or feel free to email cloc@cafdn.org if you have questions.
#LetsCelebrate! Ontario Children’s Advancement Coalition’s SIXTH ANNUAL SIGNATURE Children and Youth in Care Day event is MAY 14, 2024! This annual Provincial Day of Learning is an event that provides us with an opportunity to listen to Experts (both First Voice and Critically Allied).
This year will continue the annual theme, “FIVE14FUTURES: Across Our Lifetime” with a focus on Equitable Standards in Ontario, and across Canada. This annual event is sponsored by the Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada!
As always, this year we have an amazing line up of speaker from the Youth in/from “Care” communities, and allied experts. Two musicians/artists will open and close this anchor event on Ontario’s Youth In Care Day – let’s support Indigenous and lived expert artists!
FAYTH, who is an Indigenous artist from Wiikwemikoong First Nation, is a 2023 recipient of the Neebin’s Music Fund (Neebin’s family, FN Caring Society, and inPath created fund to honour Neebin Armstrong’s memory). Fayth is being sponsored by the First Nations Caring Society of Canada!
ROSE JONES, who is a musician with lived expertise of the child “welfare” system in Ontario, who is currently working on their first full album!! Rose Jones is being sponsored by the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies!
The event will be from 11:45AM-1:45PM, and you can listen in while you have lunch or getting work done. This is a FREE VIRTUAL event streamed LIVE from Facebook. Like and Follow to get notification of the event! Click here: https://lnkd.in/gF7n2XV.
RSVP Link! RSVPs will be private to protect the accounts of people! https://fb.me/e/5WSTKFDR7
This year there will also be an exciting announcement in collaboration with Cindy Blackstock!
Let’s honor, commemorate, and celebrate youth in/from care, across our lifetime! Check out the lineup! Please share!
Thank You,
Cheyanne Ratnam, BSW;MSW
