La Société de l'aide à l'enfance de Stormont, Dundas et Glendarry

We know that family life can be

complicated and parenting can be hard we

believe that families keep children safe

most of the time but from time to time

they need help at the Children's Aid

Society of storm on dundas and glengarry

we have the mandate to protect children

and youth from abuse and neglect our

commitment is to work with families in

finding solutions that work for them our

employees are dedicated in assisting

guiding and supporting families in a

respectful manner when we design our

logo we were looking for a fun vibrant

image that would represent our

commitment to our families our

aspirations to our youth and our strong

engagement to our community partners our

logo has three main parts our first part

of the logo is the heart it represents

the caring we express for our families

and our communities as it's an open

heart it is meant to show we are open

minded and all-encompassing at CIS we

respect all families unique know some

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things I didn't want to do I didn't feel

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early and building respectful

relationships you didn't feel like she

was a working she came in and it felt

more like a friend coming in she'd sit

down discuss with you without that

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now she talked to us like we were people

not just okay we're a case number my

ultimate goal and I work with families

is that they're able to identify what

they want to work on and that they're

able to be open and honest with me to be

able to get that real feedback so it's

always about what they want to do but

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service excellent for me means being

transferred with the families shown

respect working with them where they're

at for them to know exactly where were

involved and what needs to happen for us

to close our file it's when we break

barriers or communication and find

common goals and when you know we work

cooperatively with families to find ways

in which to improve situations they're

not there to judge you or to just walk

in and say well we're taking your kids

or or anything like that so I mean

they're just really want you to make

sure you're going down the right path we

believe that families are the experts of

their story we want to hear their voices

because they know best what type of

solution will help their family whenever

it became an understanding between us

and the agency and we became like I said

partnership it it gave us the tools

necessary to get to the point of the

resolution to have the common goal we

encourage families to reach out to their

supports as we know the more people

involved in a family's life the better

the outcome choosing these

individuals are critical because you

never know how long the halls look so we

have fantastic support when necessary we

support families and coming up with

another permanent plan for their

children it was my grandchild my love of

my life but I did need to help with the

agency in their advice but it goes fast

it's been great to up it's like a blink

of the eye I think it made me younger to

be a foster parent it means just taking

a child into a home into her lives

opening up her home for the child in

need but not as giving like the basic

necessities but giving the place to live

integral then you're providing them with

an opportunity of being able to do

something then they start feeling good

about themselves their life starts

turning around and all of a sudden you

have a change in a child we know that

children do not come with an instruction

manual and the day that he came to us I

said it's our little boys and he was a

little devil yes he was kiku on us the

first week we lost our cockatiel there

he opened up the front door and out it

when we are proud to be part of the

Triple P community we believe Triple P

will enhance confidence in parenting the

Triple P affords families quick access

to parenting interventions that's going

to ensure that they have the best skill

sets possible it helped me understand a

lot more from a child or and a teenager

teenagers perspective it's actually a

lot of stuff that I was pretty much

doing wrong so once i was finished

Triple P I was like really it amazed

that all the strategies that I learned

and stuff by the second part of the logo

are the Rays which surround the heart

representing our pride and humility in

our efforts for community of

the sun is meant to bring hope and be a

guiding light to those in need we

encourage families to stay connected to

their community and we are committed to

working with our community partners to

help meet the needs of our families

corrimal police and Cas our goals might

be worded differently but we have

similar stake to ensure the same

commitment to our community it's a team

approach and we do so to really come up

with the best planning for the family we

work together learn about each other's

roles and for families we know exactly

what we're going to be doing which i

think is consistency to families by

having everyone under one roof makes it

much easier for the the teen for

children's age and the family is I find

the collaboration commitment and

patience is the key and we are witness

to many many success stories the last

part of our logo is the star it is meant

to inspire our children to have high

expectations of themselves and others it

also symbolizes that we as an agency are

watching over the children of our

communities and that our greatest desire

is for them to become autonomous

independent successful shining stars

note that the star is strongly attached

to the heart we hope that our children

successes can be reached and shared

within our communities as they become

future ambassadors and leaders of change

we're always told growing up that youth

and children are our future are the ones

that will become our prime minister are

the ones that will become the CEOs and

the police and you know everything that

the adults are today and that's why we

do have role models but really it can't

they can't just follow their example

they need to become leaders themselves

well cas gave me a lot of great

advantages i would say like

the past two years I've actually gone to

Europe twice that let me definitely are

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secretion genome had just recently been

accepted to University where I'm going

into teacher education string so working

with the children in the Children's Aid

Society has inspired me to want to work

more with children later on in my life

to listen to their goals and just be

beside them and help them achieve the

goals that they want youth who have high

expectations of themselves and have

people who believe in men will achieve

their goals they really helped me

motivated me go back to school it wasn't

a big interest in my life for a while

something that's really important to me

is photography because it's my escape

from reality cas has helped me with that

we all need people to know are there for

us and any child that we come into

contact with here often don't have that

you know so it's important for all kids

to know that there's someone in the

world that's crazy about them but there

is a place for every child out there and

there is a family that's going to feel

the same way that we did to know that

deep down inside your heart and when

they said that Johnson was going up for

adoption well

we looked at each other's in yo this

kid's not going any easier he's ours it

so yes sometimes it's the little things

that can make a big difference in

becoming independent autonomous adults

having kids it's not always easy it's

not always easy to deal with the issues

of everyday life every needs everyone

needs help everyone needs support we are

accountable to children youth and

families in our community and we are

dedicated to ensuring that we are

providing the best service to our

families and our continually obtaining

feedback from those we work with CES is

not actually out to work against us but

to help together as a partnership to

solve whatever issues there they want to

help keep the children in their their

biological homes and their family unit

there's so many things that they can

show you or teach you that would be

really helpful I probably say just hang

in there I guess I mean it all goes

uphill it's it's something that

I don't know what I would do without

them don't be afraid because they're not

out to hurt you they're up to help you

without the CAS I don't know that I

would be where I am today and as happy

and as I am and my kids wouldn't

probably be as low justed as they are

without the support of them cas what

they've done is they gave me hope they

gave me proof that there was a better

tomorrow and for that I'm forever

thankful we are here and we are here to

to help

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