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INTRODUCTION

The Foster Care Council of Canada is an Ottawa based national organization made up of people whose lives have been affected by foster care and other members of the community who are concerned with improving the relationships between child welfare service providors and their clients. The Council is dedicated to empowering child welfare clients to improve their own personal lives across Canada.

NEWS: JIM MALONE DIES - DEMAND PUBLIC INQUIRY

Jim Malone, 49 year-old former employee of the Windsor Ontario Children's Aid Society has died from injuries sustained during a dramatic and fatal demonstration against the Children's Aid Society. Jim Malone will be remembered, along with several other former youth in care and family members who have died as a result of being involved with child welfare next year in our third Annual Victims of Child Welfare Memorial Day on October 06th 2005. I suspect that eventually Jim's family will discover a suicide note or something similar to tell us what was really happening. [Read more on the news link]

ACTIVE CASE - SUMMARY & PREDICTION

The identities of the client's involved have been changed enough to protect their identity as the Child and Family Services Act (CFSA) mandates.

Children Taken Due To Parent's Disability

The Children's Aid Society of Ottawa-Carleton (C.A.S. Ottawa) is currently holding two siblings away from their family and in their second foster home in just two months because their parent, who has a physical disability finds it difficult to maintain the home to a level of tidyness that C.A.S. Ottawa demands of them.

During a recent meeting at the agency, despite the fact that the parent had completed all of the requirements laid out by the workers involved in this case, Rob Goodman, in the presence of the parent, two support persons, and an observer from the parent's attourney's office, stated that he feels he is not ready to have the children returned home as of yet, without giving any details as to why he made this decision.

Parent Being Difficult According To Workers

The workers have stated that the parent is "difficult to work with", and have made this a great concern to the agency and to their supervisor Rob Godman.

Having been present during several meetings in the home between the workers and the parent, I have observed what these staff call "being difficult" and it is nothing more than a caring and worried parent who is firm and calm in asking questions of them, and in calling them when they make mistakes.

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Thursday October 21st 2004 The Couter was at 004455 (6:45am)

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