Foster care in Southern Ontario

Thank you for your interest in foster care in Southern Ontario.

Key Assets Fostering is based in Mississauga, in the Peel region of Southern Ontario. We are currently applying for a license to offer foster care in Southern Ontario from the Ministry of Children and Youth Services. With this license we hope to be able to provide fostering placements for children and youth from across the Central West regions and counties.

Supporting foster care in Southern Ontario

Key Assets Fostering supports a number of different types of foster care placements in Canada, and hopes to soon be doing the same in Southern Ontario. Many of the children who need foster care with Key Assets Fostering present with difficult behaviours or complex physical and emotional needs.

To support potential foster parents in the Southern Ontario region, Key Assets Fostering will provide specialized foster parent training on a wide range of topics, as well as comprehensive support services from a team of locally based professionals.

If you decide to begin a career in foster care in Southern Ontario, Key Assets Fostering provides competitive fostering payments to all our foster parents to reward them for the work they do with children who cannot remain with their birth families due to neglect, abuse, difficult behaviours or complex needs.

Providing Aboriginal foster care

Key Assets Fostering supports the unique needs of Aboriginal children in foster care in Northern and Southern Ontario. Particularly in areas in the North, there is a high volume of Aboriginal children who cannot live with their birth parents for any number of reasons.

Through our ‘Caring For Our Own Children’ program of foster care in Northern Ontario, we hope to find homes for a lot of these children within their local community. However, where this is not possible, we are looking to offer specialized training and support to foster parents in Southern Ontario who feel they can encourage and promote a child’s cultural and ethnic identity.

Meet the team at Key Assets Fostering in Southern Ontario

Kathryn Rock has been Director of Key Assets Ontario since August 2009. As a Child and Youth Counsellor with over 20 years’ experience, Kathryn has worked in Children's Mental Health, Youth Criminal Justice and Child Welfare. In her last role as a Supervisor in Child Welfare she managed a team of professionals who were responsible for the assessment and placement of children and youth within one of the most diverse communities in the province.

Kathryn also has extensive experience working with special needs and dually diagnosed children and youth. Kathryn is excited to be part of an organization that has a reputation internationally for supporting carers and providing quality family based care. She is committed to establishing the same reputation for Key Assets in Ontario.

Are you thinking of fostering in Southern Ontario?

Key Assets Fostering is recruiting people to become foster parents in Southern Ontario. We currently have a need for people interested in foster care West to Hamilton and Kitchener Waterloo Region, East to Durham Region and North to the Simcoe/Barrie Area. If you’re not sure if you live within our current catchment area don’t hesitate to call and find out as we may be moving to your areas sometime soon and would enjoy speaking with you.

If you think you could offer foster care in Southern Ontario to children and youth with complex needs, call us on (905) 279-4500 or inquire online today and speak to a member of the team at Key Assets Fostering.

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