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By Jessica Lovell
Guelph Tribune

Children benefit from stability and a connection to family, but for around 200 children and youth in the care of the local children?s aid society, that stability is uncertain.
Finding permanent, adoptive homes for kids is one of the ways Family and Children?s Services of Guelph and Wellington County is working to give these children back that sense of stability.
?Our hope is that every child will have a permanent family,? said children?s services worker Kirk Jenkins. ?In many cases, it means adoption.?
Not all of the 200 children ?in care? are up for adoption, so to speak. About 140 are Crown wards, meaning they will be in care until a permanent home can be found for them. The others are in temporary foster care until they can be returned to their families.
For those considered Crown wards, adoption is not the only avenue to permanency. Some, for example, will go to live with family in a legal guardianship relationship.
But for others, adoption is the answer, and there are not enough adoptive parents to go around.
?We?re now encouraging people who foster to be open to adopting,? said Jenkins, acknowledging that this is a fairly new direction for the agency.
Previously, fostering a child was not encouraged as an avenue to adoption, with the two roles seen as separate and fulfilling different needs.
But the agency is beginning to realize that the two roles cannot easily be separated.

Source: http://www.guelphtribune.ca/community/fostering-new-hopes-for-adoption/

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