- Foster Parents Society of Ontario

Foster Parents Society of Ontario ♥ Association des parents nourriciers de l'Ontario
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Inside this issue:
Bursary & Youth Awards
2
Conference 2008 Report
2
Lifetime Achievement
3
Poster Contest
3
Foster Parent Award
4
Zone Reports
4
Special points of interest:
 Zone Reports
 Life Time Achievement
2008!
 New Poster contest. Check
it out.
 Committee Reports
FPSO Executive
Cecile Brookes
President
[email protected]
VACANT
1st Vice President
VACANT
2nd Vice President
Darlene Heaslip
Treasurer
[email protected]
Barbara Ptashynski
Secretary
(905) 271-3608
[email protected]
President’s Message
Our conference in June was a great
success with many positive comments received by the organization.
Having centrally located FPSO conferences allows more foster parents
from all over the province able to
attend.
My thanks go to the Keynote Speakers, motivational speaker Sue
Augustine and Dr. Jean Clinton for
taking the time to join us in this
event and to all the FPSO Conference committee members, Central
Zone Foster Parent Association conference committee members and to
the hosting York Region Foster Parent Association members all of
whom committed a tremendous
amount of time and effort. The dedication and commitment of presenters
who not only give of their time but
also share a firm belief in what we
are doing will continue to assist us
in furthering the educational attainment of foster parents. The committee members must also be recognized for the procurement of the tremendous amount of silent auction
items and the items for our hospitality suite. Many thanks to all of those
foster parent associations who
brought items for the silent auction.
Over the last few months your Foster
Parent Association Presidents have
brought forth your concerns re the
Safe 1 & 11 Questionnaires and the
details required in these documents
as well as the accompanying medical
September 2008
and financial documents. A great many
foster parents are finding these to be
very intrusive. FPSO, as your provincial voice for all foster parents, has responded to your concerns and has sent a
letter to Honourable Minister Deb
Mathews, as well as OACAS, every Executive Director of Ontario Children’s
Aid Societies and to all Foster Parent
Association Presidents in the province.
We have also had a meeting with
OACAS on this issue and will be discussing it further at the November
Presidents Meeting.
Other FPSO initiatives currently underway are: to have as many articles translated into French. It is our goal to have
the Hilites bilingual and thanks must go
to the Development and Advocacy
Committee for the progress to date, improving the financial templates developed by Operation and Services committee, increased communication between the zones, executive members
attend zone meetings, Advocacy Level
Four and the second year of “Building
and Strengthening Your FPA.” FPSO is
operated solely by volunteers. Now an
office and staff are needed to meet the
needs of foster parents in the province.
FPSO will be seeking funding for office
space and staff. We want you to know
that the FPSO board of directors is hard
at work and we look forward to seeing
your foster parent association executive
members at the November Presidents
Meeting.
Respectfully submitted
Cecile Brookes
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BURSARY & YOUTH AWARDS
Name, address, and telephone
number of the Foster Parent(s);
 A maximum of two (2) typewritten pages by the applicant
outlining their background;
 A letter of support must be provided by the President of the
FPA/FFA) or any CAS agency
worker involved with the child
and /or the Foster Family; and
 Name, address, and telephone
number of the FPA/FFA, or
CAS Agency providing the letter of support.
FPSO is pleased to announce
their Bursary & Youth Awards.
CRITERIA:
 Applicant must be a foster,
adopted or biological child of a
Foster Parent;
 Foster Parent(s) must be in
good standing with FPSO; and
 Applicant must be attending
(not applying to attend) a postsecondary institution for the
term beginning January, 2009.

PLEASE SUBMIT:
 Proof of registration in post
secondary institution for
January 2009;
 An attached cover sheet with
name, address, and telephone
number of the applicant;
All information must be submitted by the applicant;
 FPSO reserves the right to publish extracts from the background letter; and
 There are no limits to the number of submissions by an FPA/
FFA, or CAS Agency.

All entries must be submitted by
FEBRUARY 28, 2009 to:
Dave Terrington
3050 Dandurand Blvd.
Windsor, Ontario N9E 2E6
[email protected]
PLEASE NOTE:
 An applicant may apply as
many times as they wish, but
may not receive a bursary more
than twice.
CONFERENCE 2008 REPORT
“WE TOUCH THE FUTURE”
It was a very memorable event and a
very special honour for me to be the
conference chairperson for the 35th anniversary of the Foster Parents Society
of Ontario (FPSO). This year FPSO
and its’ predecessor organization the
Foster Parent Association of Ontario
(FPAO) celebrated its collective 35th
anniversary. When the membership of
FPAO voted to become an independent
association FPSO was formed. This
Association has continued to be the
primary voice of foster parents in the
province. Over the years FSPO has
continued to provide first rate conferences for foster parents across the
province. FPSO conferences provides a
forum for foster parents to attend educational seminars, workshops and to
exchange ideas with each other.
The Advocacy Training continues to
be very popular and the Friday all day
workshop “How to Successfully Inter-
act with your School” had almost 100
attendees. This year the committee
members have reached out to the Ontario business community and the response was wonderful resulting in a
large number of donations. A complete
list of the corporate Donors is available
on the FPSO website
I would like to thank all the FPA’s in
Central Region for their contributions
especially the hosting FPA from York,
Toronto
Catholic,
HamiltonWentworth, Hamilton Roman Catholic,
Guelph–Wellington, Niagara, Simcoe,
Durham, have come forward, work
hard donated financially. Their generosity is most appreciated.
On a personal note, I would like to
thank Debra Barrett for the donation
from our new member the FPA of
Thunder Bay. Also, I need to express
my gratitude to Mary Burnett for her
thank you letters and her unending sup-
www.fosterparentssociety.org
port and Tony Morrow. I need to acknowledge and thank Karen Starling
who has spent countless hours as conference registrar and the London FPA
for their financial support, Dee Duvall
for her never ending donations.
Mostly I would like to thank Cecile
Brookes for giving me the opportunity
to host this conference and for her tireless efforts and support.
Conference 2008 was hosted by the
York Foster Parent association and was
the first in a series of conferences to be
held at the beautiful Sheraton Parkway
Hotel in Richmond Hill. FPSO has
contracted with the Sheraton Parkway
Hotel for the conferences of 2009,
2010, and 2011.
Barbara Ptashynski
Conference 2008, Chairperson
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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
This award recognizes a current
Foster Parent or Foster Family who
has demonstrated continual lifetime
excellence in the field of fostering
as well as within the community.
This nomination can be made by an
agency, FPA/FFA.
CRITERIA:



Foster Parent(s) must be in
good standing with FPSO;
Cover sheet must be attached
and include the name, address,
and telephone number of the
Foster Parent(s) being nominated, and the name of the
FPA/FFA or Agency making
the nomination.
also be submitted;

Only one (1) submission allowed by FPA/FFA or Agency
All entries to be submitted by
FEBRUARY 28, 2009 to:
Dave Terrington
3050 Dandurand Blvd.
Windsor, Ontario N9E 2E6
[email protected]
Maximum of two (2) typewritten pages outlining the background of the nominee(s) must
ESSAY CONTEST
Theme: LET THE SUNSHINE IN
Age Categories: Age 6-12,
Age 13-19

PRIZES:
1st. Prize -$50.00
2nd. prize-$25.00
CRITERIA:
 Applicant must be the foster,
adopted, or biological child of a
Foster Parent;


standing with the FPSO;

Applicant must submit an
original writing about their
experience with fostering such
as poetry or an essay of no
more then 500 words; and
All entries to be submitted by
FEBRUARY 28, 2009 to:
Cover sheet with name, address and telephone number of
the applicant and include the
name of the Foster Parent(s)
Submissions become the property of FPSO and will not be
returned and may be used in
future publications.
Dave Terrington
3050 Dandurand Blvd.
Windsor, Ontario N9E 2E6
[email protected]
Foster Parent must be in good
Poster Contest !!!
Theme “LET THE SUNSHINE IN”
AGE CATEGORIES:
2-5 yrs., 6-9 yrs., 10-14 yrs.,
15-19, Special Needs.
 Theme of the Poster;
 Name, address, phone number,
PRIZE (for each category)
FIRST PRIZE
$50.00
SECOND PRIZE
$25.00
 Posters should measure approx.
CRITERIA:
 Applicant must be the foster,
adopted or biological child of a
Foster Parent(s);
 Foster Parent(s) must be in good
standing with FPSO
SUBMISSIONS:
Please attach a cover sheet to the back
of the artist’s work including:
age of the artist, Foster Parent
name and FPA/FFA or Agency;
28 cm. X 43 cm (11” x 17”);
 No mechanical reproductions
permitted;
 Submissions become the prop-
erty of FPSO and will not be
returned and may be used in
future publications.
PLEASE NOTE:
Applicants who wish to have their
posters considered for future FPSO
www.fosterparentssociety.org
calendars or other projects should use
the following materials;
-white Bristol board
-markers or poster paint rather than
crayons or pencil
DEADLINE: February 28, 2009
All entries must be sent to :
Dave Terrington
3050 Dandurand Blvd.
Windsor, Ontario N9E 2E6
[email protected]
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FOSTER PARENT OF THE YEAR AWARD
This award is to recognize a Foster
Windsor, Ontario N9E 2E6
and the name of the FPA/FFA
Parent or Foster Family who have
[email protected]
or Agency making the nominademonstrated exceptional accomtion;
CRITERIA:
plishments in the field of fostering.
 Maximum of two (2) type(not necessarily over a long period  Foster Parent must be in good
written pages outlining the
of time)
standing with FPSO;
background of the nominee
All entries to be submitted by
must also be submitted; and
 Cover sheet must be attached
February 28, 2009 to:
including the name, address,
 Only one (1) submission
and
telephone
number
of
the
Dave Terrington
allowed by FPA/FFA or
Foster Parent being nominated,
3050 Dandurand Blvd.
Agency.
Bursary Award Winners 2008
On behalf of all Foster Parents across Ontario FPSO would like to congratulate all of the 42 recipients of the 2008 FPSO Bursary Awards .
Congratulations, and good luck in your upcoming studies.
ZONE REPORTS
Central Zone Report
List of ten most important things
that foster parents want FPSO to
look at.
would like to see meetings with
Jeanette Lewis
We would like to have a position
with the OACAS, to be apprised of
draft proposals, and changes that
effect the foster community
Like to see FPSO become one voice,
not fractured
We would like to see a representative
from the Ministry meet with FPSO,
to build a productive relationship.
With an aim to work with the Ministry, without having to go through
OACAS.
For the FPSO to become chartered, and
to “charter the local FPA’s this would
add weight to FPA’s ability to bargain,
and debate with the agencies.
For the FPSO to seek out one of the car
companies, who would give discounts to
all foster parents, or something like this.
We want the benefit packages, different
from what we have, perhaps a group
plan, we could do a survey to see how
many foster parents would be interested
in being members of a group plan.
The FPSO to look into a pension savings
plan
Middlesex.
We had to elect a new Chairperson,
This Zone has had a very active
as Richard Porter is working on a
year. We met every three months in
committee in the F.P.S.O. We tackled
the CAS building in London. We
many items of concern for our foster
have quite a good representation from
parents. Rating tool, CAS requesting
areas such as Windsor-Essex, Woodschool insurance coverage compensastock, Bruce County, Owen Sound &
tion being handed over to them, reGrey, Huron-Perth and London/
lief & costs incurred while
taking foster children on vacation with
the family, rates for back to school, updates about Kinship, coverage $(dollar)
for foster parents, special rates for homes
with our special needs children and taken
away if child has improved, discrepancies with the special needs for drugs
and specialty items, to name a few.
The SAFE tool.
For the FPSO to challenge the Human
Rights Commission, about the service
agreements foster parents have to
sign, the service agreements supersede the Human Rights Act.
Like to see FPSO strengthen their position with OACAS, to effect greater
changes and supports for the foster
homes, at the Ministry level, we
South Western Zone Report
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establish a more solid F.P.A. &
F.P.S.O., with hopefully, future inThe London/Middlesex & Windsor
volvement in the Legal Defense Fund.
regions had changes in their Foster
The topic of foster children being left
Parents Association Executive teams out of the Government funding for low
and they are ready to lend their support income children was presented, with
to volunteer in any capacity to make
handouts, for representatives to take
the 2008 Conference in Toronto a suc- back to various agencies for discussion
cess.
at local meetings. These areas gave
Windsor held the 2007 Conference,
their input on the "grid” to take back to
which was attended by many, many
the President's meeting.
foster parents and the Workshops were Karen Starling will look into local servery educational. So now the 2008
vice clubs & government grants &
Conference must strive to keep up the suggested other zone members follow
momentum.
suit.
Woodstock is working diligently to
The S.A.F.E. questionnaire was com(South Western Zone continued from page 4)
NORTHERN ZONE REPORT ment in the LDF, creating a website
The Northern Zone has gone through
some changes over the past year. Liette Gallant has submitted her resignation with regrets as Director for Region 4 and Chair for this zone. Although she will be sorely missed, we
all understand that her family has to
be her first priority. Thank you Liette, for your smiling face, generous
spirit and willing contributions to
FPSO. You will be missed.
At the time of this report we have not
been notified of a new Director for
Zone 4.
Sudbury has newly elected ten people
to their FPA Executive with Denis
Boisvenue as President. We look forward to corresponding and working
with Denis and his FPA Executive.
Natalie Blake is Director for Region 3
and President of Algoma FFA. Algoma is into its second year and has
established an Advocate Program,
created brochures and organized three
social family events. They established
a training coordinator to learn about
services in the community, and hosted
“muffin mornings” at their CAS to
show their appreciation of staff and
management. They started a foster
parent mentoring program and send
out ten newsletters a year. Their future goals include facilitating enrol-
for the AFFA and working toward
closing the gap between the 23.6%
rise in the cost of living compared to
the 5% rise in per diems over the past
10 years. Their agency would like to
work with them to increase recruitment and retention of foster parents
and also to develop training strategies.
Mike Paquette is Director of Region
2. Debra Barrett is the Director for
Region 1 and is working towards
building closer communication and
increased support among the Associations in the Northwest. She will travel
to help Glenn Bauman in Rainy River
with elections and rebuilding their
FPA. She is also working with the
native agency, Dilico, in Thunder Bay
to establish their FPA. Kenora President, Vicki Creed, has reported difficulty finding foster parents to attend
the Conference. She has requested
that FPSO find a way to provide training in the community. At the last Directors’ meeting there was discussion
of this request being met through the
FPSO website.
Thunder Bay FPA was established
October 2007 and joined the FPSO
for the first time. As a result of the
report brought forward at the November FPSO meeting, regarding publicized statistics of the number of
homeless people who were once in
www.fosterparentssociety.org
pleted by the London/Middlesex
F.P.A. Executive team.
Richard Porter stated that the School
Board ruling of February 2008 ruled
that every child must be provided an
education & School boards can no
longer suspend a child diagnosed with
a problem, but transportation suspensions are another entity.
We look forward to another fruitful
year.
Judy M.E. Jones,
Chairperson,
South western Zone Committee
care, the Thunder Bay Executive, who
work closely with their agency, has initiated a plan to encourage and support
children in ways that will hopefully increase the number of high school and
post-secondary graduates. The first step
has been the successful implementation
of monthly newsletters and monthly
FPA events for families that are organized by the FPA Executive. The second
step is implementing an “honouring of
the graduates” which includes bio kids,
at the June Event. The third step was
discussion with the agency regarding
the difficulties faced by foster children
who “age-out” of their foster homes
while they are still in their last year of
high school. This work is ongoing and
difficult and, although the agency is
committed to finding solutions for the
students, they are experiencing extensive budget constraints this year. Thunder Bay FPA has joined the LDF
through direct payment from per diems,
with the support of the agency. The
FPA will also be establishing a formal
Advocacy Program after Level 1 Training at the FPSO Conference. They are
also working on creating a website for
the FPA.
At the time of this report I have just recently been appointed interim chair for
the Northern Zone. What I have set as a
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nomical but functional format for communicating and meeting. The vast distance of the four regions in the Northern Zone presents a financial issue for
meeting as regularly as the other
zones; but, the importance of meeting
to explore mutual ideas and concerns,
develop timely initiatives, and find
strength and stability in our isolation is
undeniable. What we can accomplish
will depend once again, on the commitment and participation of the presidents in our huge Northern Zone and
the ability and diligence of our Directors to network with their provincial
counterparts to develop a solid voice
from the North.
Debra Barrett
Rapport de la zone du nord
La zone du a passé à travers quelques
changements durant la dernière année.
Lise Gallant a soumis sa résignation
avec regret comme Directeur de la Région 4 et siège sur le comité pour cette
zone. Même que nous allons la manquer beaucoup, nous comprenons que
sa famille doit être sa première priorité. Merci Liette, pour ton visage souriant, ton esprit géréreuse et voulant
contribuer au FPSO. Tu vas nous
manquer.
Au moment de ce rapport nous n’avons pas été avise de son remplacement pour le directeur de zone 4.
Sudbury a nouvellement élu dix personnes pour leur exécutif d’APA avec
Denis Boivenue comme président.
Nous avons hâte de correspondre et de
travailler avec Denis et son exécutif.
Natalie Blake est directeur de la zone 3
et présidente de la FFA d’Algoma.
Algoma sont maintenant dans leur
deuxième année et ils ont établie le
programme de communicateur, créer
des brochures et ont aussi organiser
trois évènements familiale sociale. Ils
ont aussi établie un coordinateur pour
s’informer des services communautai-
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res dans leur région, ils ont planifier
« muffin mornings » à leur siège sociale SAE pour montrer leur appréciation aux employées et superviseurs. Il
ont initier un programme de soutien
pour les parents d’accueils et ont envoyées 10 « newsletter » par année.
Leurs buts futurs incluent facilités les
inscriptions du LDF, créer un site web
pour le AFFA et travailler pour faire
une moins grosse différence entre
l’augmentation de 23.6% dans le coût
de la vie comparer au 5% d’augmentation du per-diem dans les derniers 10
ans. Leur agence aimerait travailler
avec eux pour augmenter le recrutement et la rétention des familles d’accueils ainsi pour développer des stratégies de formation.
Mike Paquette est le directeur de la
région 2. Debra Barrett est le directeur
de la région 1 et elle travaille sur bâtir
une communication plus proche et
augmenter leur support envers les association du Nord-ouest. Elle va voyager pour aider Glenn Bauman à Rainy
River avec leurs élections et pour rebâtir leur APA. Elle travaille aussi les
agences amérindiennes, Dilico, à
Thunder Bay pour établir leur APA.
La présidente de Kenora, Vicki Creed,
a rapporter que c’est difficile de recruter des parents d’accueil pour la conférence. Elle a demandé à FPSO de
trouver une façon pour faire de la formation à travers leurs communautés.
A la dernières rencontre des directeur
il y avait des discutions que ceci avait
déjà été rencontrer sur le site web du
FPSO.
L’APA de Thuder Bay a été établie en
octobre 2007 et ils ont joints FPSO
pour la première fois. Comme résultats du rapport remis à la rencontre de
novembre du FPSO, concernant de
publiquement montrer les statistiques
du nombre de personnes sans abris sur
leurs soins, l’exécutif de Thunder Bay
ont travailler de près avec leur agence
à ce sujet et on initier un plan d’encouragement et de support envers les en-
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fants en espérant avoir plus de graduer
du secondaire et post-secondaire. La
première étape fut un succès implanter
un « newsletter » par mois ainsi que
des activités familiales du APA qui
sont organiser par leur exécutif. La
seconde étape est d’implanter une
« honneurs des gradues » à leur évènement du mois de juin pour tout les enfants incluant nos enfants biologique.
La troisième étape était de discuter
avec l’agence concernant des difficultés face à des enfants vieillissant de
leur maison d’accueil et qui sont dans
leur dernière année de secondaire. Cet
ouvrage est encore en marche et difficile et malgré laide que l’agence veut
apporter pour trouver des solutions
pour ces étudiants ils ont des restrictions budgétaires pour cette année.
APA de Thunder Bay s’est inscrit avec
LDF pour des paiements directs pour
les per-diems avec le support de leur
agence. L’APA veux établir formellement un programme de communicateur ceci après la formation niveau 1 à
la conférence de FPSO. Ils travaillent
aussi a former un site web pour l’APA.
Au moment de ce rapport je venais
tout juste d’être appointer membres
par intérim pour la zone du nord. Ce
que j’ai mis comme but immédiat est
de développer un format fonctionnel
de communications et rencontre économique. La grosse distance des quatre régions de la zone du nord nous
sommes impossibles financièrement
comme les autre zones, mais, l’importance de ce rencontrer pour explorer
des idées mutuel et nos craintes, du
temps pour développer des initiatives
et trouver de la force et stabilité dans
notre isolation est un atout. Ce que
nous pouvons accomplir va dépendre
encore une fois, sur le vouloir et la
participation des présidents de l’immensité de la zone du nord et l’habilité de nos directeurs pour faire entendre
nos voix du nord.
Debra Barrett
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Rapport de la zone de l’Est.
La zone de l’Est consiste de les APA/
FFA suivantes : Kawartha-Haliburton,
Northumberland, Hastings, Lennox &
Addington, Prince Edward County,
Frontenac, Lanark, Renfrew, Ottawa,
Leeds Grenville, Prescott-Russell and
Stromond, Dundas and Glengarry.
L’association des parents d’accueil de
l’est Ontario (APAEO) continue de se
rencontrer régulièrement pour discuter
nos problèmes en commun. Cette année nos discussions portaient sur Kinship, l’adoption et durant notre tour de
table des APA/FFA qui amènent des
conversations intéressantes à la table.
Nous avons des inquiétudes que les
APA/FFA ont des difficultés à trouver
des nouveaux membres pour l’exécutif
ainsi que des membres pour travailler
pour le bien des familles d’accueils.
Nous regardons à des prix et remboursement à travers notre zone et discu-
tons du ECM.
Deux de nos membres se rencontre aux
trois mois avec les superviseurs ressources pour la collaboration de l’est
ontarien, pour présenter leurs inquiétudes mutuel, Une fois par année en mai
nous avons une retraite pour la zone de
l’est, où tous les présidents y sont invitées. A ce moment nous regardons
dans le recrutement et la rétention des
foyers avec des bourses provenant du
programme Trillium. Ceci est un projet de 2 ans, et nous avons hâte de voir
les résultats préliminaires des questionnaires envoyer plus tôt cette année
à tous nos foyers d’accueil dans la
zone de l’est. Nous trouvons que nos
rencontres nous donne un sense de
renouvellement et de coopération entre
les parents d’accueil et les agences.
Encore une fois nous avons eu le privilège d’avoir Linda Braithwaite membre des superviseurs ressources pour la
collaboration de la zone de l’est parti-
ciper à nos réunions, pour nous mettre
à jour de ce qui se passe à travers la
zone.
Nos communicateurs sont très occupés. Ils se rencontrent sous leur
membre Nikki Barham juste avant nos
réunions de zone de l’est. Ils sont occuper à faire de la comparaison des
brochures de communicateurs à travers
la zone et tout récemment ils ont fini
« Référence des termes ». Ils ont aussi
revue le « registraire des offenseurs »
et tout ce que ceci implique.. Les
communicateurs travaillent aussi sur
les « droits des parents d’accueils »,
prenant la meilleure pratique à travers
la zone.
Comme membre, ce fut une année bénéfique et je m’Attends à une autre
année aussi occuper.
Bien à vous,
Mary L Burnett.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE
Governance & policy Update
Over the past little while the Governance committee has been gradually
continuing the work on updating the
directors’ manual. We are currently
working on section seven, with the anticipation, that we will be able to move
on to section eight in the fall.
The storage and archiving of records is
also in the works, however it is only in
the early stages.
Over the summer a good deal of work
has been done on the SAFE I & SAFE
II Questionnaires, with the inputting of
the poll data that has already been forwarded, as well as a few preliminary
meetings. I look forward to sharing the
progress of this project with you all at
our upcoming November Presidents
and Directors meeting.
Vanessa Milley
Governance Chair FPSO
OPERATIONS & SERVICES
COMMITTEE
NOMINATING COMMITTEE
The Nominating Committee will be
holding internal elections for 1st and
First we would like to thank Tony
Morrow for the work that he has done 2nd vice president of the board as we
say goodbye to Tony Morrow and
while chairing this committee.
We are going to miss Tony!! We are Gary Thompson. We are working on
going to do the very best in filling his having all area members of FPSO
represented by a director. We conshoes!
As most of you have seen the report of tinue to encourage all non members to
our committee at the last Annual Gen- join FPSO for our mutual benefit.
eral Meeting presented by Tony it
Joy Cole, Chairperson
makes forecasting receipts and exNominating Committee
penses a lot easier.
Our goal is to continue the work that
FPSO Conference 2009
has been started by the past committee
members and improve where we can. Date: May 20- 24, 2009
I am looking forward to chairing this
Location:
committee.
Leonard Paquette
Chairperson
Operations and Services Committee
www.fosterparentssociety.org
Sheraton Parkway North Hotel
Richmond Hill, Ontario
Mark your calendars. More information to follow &
we will also be updating our website with the conference details as they become available.
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Life Time Achievement Award-2008 Jean Kruger.
Jean has been fostering for over 30 years, first with the Children’s Aid Society of Metropolitan Toronto and moving to Simcoe County in 1988.
Over the years Jean has fostered many children, but there are some particular accomplishments. One of these was her dedication to a large sibling group over a fourteen year period,
ending this year. This experience had its rewards and challenges, but Jean persevered. In
2006 she opened her home to a sibling group that had been separated and she continues to be
committed to caring for these children long term. Jean and her partner Gord flew the children down east last summer for a family holiday, providing them with a wonderful experience, She continues to have an active role with their mother, and the children know that
Jean respects their mother, and accepts her.
Over the years Jean has been described as being consistent, firm, quietly competent, tolerant , has a good sense of humour, patience and that she sticks with the children, even when
they are not angels. She respects and promotes the importance of the child’s natural family,
and supports these positive aspects. Her love is unconditional and her heart if full. You often hear her laugh and you always feel welcome in her home.
Pictured above are Heather Legault presenting Jean with her Life Time Achievement Award.
Parent d’accueil de l’année
Cette reconnaissance est pour un
M. Dave Terrington
méro de téléphone de la perparent d’accueil ou une famille
3050 Dandurand Blvd
sonne nominée et le nom de l’ad’accueil qui a démontré des acWindsor Ontario N9E 2E6
gence ou FPA/FFA qui ont fait
complissements exceptionnels dans
[email protected]
la nomination.
leur temps comme foyer d’accueil. Critères:
 Un maximum de deux (2) pages
(Pas nécessairement besoin d’être  Parent d’accueil doit être en
dactylographier incluant l’histosur une longue période de temps.)
rique la personne nominée.
bonne foie avec FPSO.
 Seulement une nomination peux
Toutes demande doit être soumis
 La page couverture doit être inêtre soumis par FPA/FFA ou
par le 28 février 2009 à :
clus avec le nom, adresse et nuagence.
cluent le nom des parents adoptifs ;
Thème : Laisser le soleil entré
bonne foie avec Le FPA/FFA  Les soumissions deviennent la
Catégorie d’age :Age : 6 – 12
ou l’Agence.
propriété de FPSO et ne seront
 Le demandeur doit soumettre
Age : 13- 19
pas retournées et peuvent être
Prix : 1er prix 50,00$;
une écriture originale au sujet
employées en futures publicaième
2 prix 25,00$
de leur expérience avec la stitions.
mulation telle que la poésie ou Toutes les entrées à soumettre pour
Critères :
le 28 février 2009 à :
 Appliquant doit être un enfant
un essai sans puis 500 mots ;
Dave Terrington
d’Accueil, adoptif ou biologi-  Une feuille protectrice avec le
3050 Dandurand Blvd.
que d’un parent d’accueil.
nom, l'adresse et le numéro de
Windsor, Ontario N9E 2E6
 Le parent d’accueil doit être en
téléphone du demandeur et [email protected]
Concours d’essaie
FPSO Directors & FPA/FFA Presidents meeting Saturday November 22, 2008
Note: FPA president's and are to book their own rooms before October 17, 2008 at the Best Western or
Sheraton Hotel at 1-800-668-0101. otherwise the hotel will not guarantee FPSO’s preferred rates or availability of the rooms after this date.
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