Financial Support
www.quintechildrensfoundation.org/ The Quinte Children's Foundation has programs available for children and families who are in need of some help funding a child or children who aren't able to access extracurricular programs and summer camps. They also provide bursaries for post-secondary education each Spring. The funding is provided through individual and corporate donations and gifts.
The Quinte Children's Foundation receives applications, many of them through the Hastings Children's Aid Society and other community partners, then reviews the applications and provides the funds where the applications meet their guidelines and until the funds have run out for that year.
This resource may be something you'd like to keep in mind when you are providing links on the website, but under the umbrella of Hastings Children's Aid Society since this is usually who the referrals come from. It sounds as though a number of the families you come in contact with are often in touch with Children's Aid Society, possibly Big Brothers, Big Sisters, or the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Treatment and Access Centre (FASTEC) in Belleville. If so, any of the social workers or service providers from these organizations can ask for an application from the Quite Children's Foundation and submit it on the families' behalf.
Please do note, the Foundation doesn't take referrals from the families themselves. They must be from a community organization in order to be reviewed.
The Workfare Watch Project and the Ontario Social Safety Network ( http://www.welfarewatch.toronto.on.ca/ )
Employment Insurance
When you get a grandchild you can apply for parental leave from UIC for 35 weeks. It was really easy to get. Applied online at: Employment Insurance: http://www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/ei-ae/ . It will take about 4 weeks for it to kick in and you do not have to fill out cards and it can be directly deposited. Here is another link that takes you to the appropriate FAQ page http://www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/ae-ei/pubs/special_e.shtml#Parental3 .
Temporary Care, Youth Applications, Children in Children's Aid Society (CAS) Care
Produced by: Niagara Region
Produced in: 2006
This resource provides information on financial support for children and youth, as well as the effect on a family's Social Assistance or Ontario Works, when a child is taken into care by the Children's Aid Society. Available in: English
Alberta: WEB SITE
BC. has Child in Home of Relative (WEB SITE)
Financial assistance for the care of the child and is not based on family income. The support is supposed to be used for short term "out" of care child placement where protection is not an issue. This option is also available to families that have been award interim or sole custody of children. This is the most used option in "out" of care arrangements BC Kinship 54.1
http://www.qp.gov.bc.ca/statreg/stat/C/96046_01.htm#section54.1 This option is under review at the moment. You need to make legal inquires about this option before entering into this time measured arrangement. Ensure that you get all the facts. You may receive monthly support.
More to come ....
CANGRANDS National Kinship Support
R.R. 1, McArthurs Mills, Ontario K0L 2M0
Tel: 613-474-0035
E-mail: grandma@cangrands.com
courriel: demandez@cangrands.com