Council Seeks Application for Membership with Ottawa Society

The Foster Care Council of Canada has applied to the Children's Aid Society of Ottawa for a membership application. The letter asking for an application from the Society and the Society's response will be posted below:



Barbara MacKinnon
Executive Director
The Children's Aid Society of Ottawa
1602 Telesat Court
Ottawa, ON
K1B 1B1

Date: December, 08, 2008

RE: Society Membership Application

Barbara MacKinnon,

The Foster Care Council of Canada (the Council) is an organization made up of of both current and former child-welfare service clients and their supporters which both carries on business and has its head office within the City of Ottawa.

It is the Council's understanding that in order for an organization to apply for a membership with the Society, the organization must conduct business within the City of Ottawa and it must uphold the Society's mission which reads as follows:

"The Children's Aid Society of Ottawa is committed to protecting the children and youth of our community from all forms or abuse and neglect. We work to keep them safe and secure, both within their families and the communities in which they live"

The Council's mission statement reads as follows:

"Involving current and former child-welfare service clients in the process of improving the quality and accountability of child-welfare services through a strong, united voice"

Since the quality and accountability of child-welfare services as provided by the Society to children and youth are essential to ensuring they are protected from all forms of abuse and neglect therefore keeping them safe and secure within their families and in the communities in which they live, communities which include foster homes, group homes, and other places of safety or custody as defined in the Child and Family Services Act, it is the genuine interest of the Council to support and become involved in ensuring that the Society meets its mission.

The Council also has a genuine interest in, and is dedicated to, helping raise awareness of the important work which is undertaken by the Society, in addition to promoting the notion that the well-being of children and youth is the responsibility of the whole community, a notion which is shared by the Society and which is central to the work the Council is engaged in.

Therefore, and in closing, I would like to request from the Society that a copy of the Society's most recent membership application be mailed to our head office, the address of which can be found in our letterhead.

Sincerely,


John Dunn
Executive Director
The Foster Care Council of Canada


The Society's response still pending.