Who Looks After the Child in CAS Care

Whenever possible, children will be placed in a familiar family setting with caregivers who are known to them. These placements are known as kinship services homes and in most cases are shorter-term placements with a clear plan for the parents and child to be reunited.

Most children in the care of the Frontenac Children's Aid Society are looked after in foster home placements in Frontenac County thereby ensuring a continuation of the child's social, emotional and educational planning with as little disruption as possible. Foster families are committed to working with the CAS, and in some cases with the child's family, to facilitate the child's return to his family.

Some children may require a placement that can better address their particular special need and are placed in group homes in, or as close to, Frontenac County as possible.

If the family situation is such that the level of risk to the child cannot be sufficiently reduced during the time frames outlined in the CFSA, the CAS will establish an independent permanency plan for the child that, wherever possible, will involve adoption or legal custody.

For more information, please see Children in our Care.