Adoption is an option for children and youth in care
Every child deserves a family and that is why the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies (OACAS) and the Adoption Council of Ontario (ACO) are partnering to advance “one day, every child in Ontario will have a family.”
During November, the OACAS and the ACO are promoting Adoption Awareness Month to remind Ontarians that adoption is an option for many children and youth in care. (more…)
Please visit http://www.youtube.com/oacaswebadmin to see a Public Service Announcement for Adoption Awareness Month.
To find out more information about adopting through the CAS of Toronto, please see http://www.torontocas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/adoptionforweb.pdf
Wendy’s Wonderful Kids
Wendy’s Wonderful Kids is a signature program of the Dave Thomas Foundation of Adoption whose mission is to move children who are living in foster care into permanent, loving adoptive homes. At the heart of this program is the belief that every child deserves to live in a safe, permanent family and that no child is unadoptable. (more…)
Three Children’s Aid Societies, Toronto, Toronto Catholic and Peel, are partnering on a targeted outreach program to the African, African-Canadian and Caribbean community looking for potential adoptive parents for the black and black bi-racial children who are waiting for loving homes. There is an urgent need for adoptive families from these communities.
Adoption is a legal and social process which establishes a parent-child relationship, providing permanence, safety and security for a child or children.
Adoption used to be considered appropriate only for babies, but now children from all age groups, including those with special needs, are being adopted. More than half of the children placed are aged 3 and under. It takes approximately one year to go through the adoption homestudy and education process. Some parents don’t wait very long for a child after they complete the homestudy because they represent the best match possible for that child.
The Children’s Aid Society of Toronto encourages birth parents who relinquish a child for adoption to be involved in the planning process to the extent that they wish.
Birth parents relinquishing a child for adoption may participate in any of the following ways in the selection of an adoptive family by: (more…)
There are children who want and need the security and commitment of an adoption home and, at the same time, want and need to have periodic contact with particular members of their birth family, such as siblings and grandparents. The agency will look for adoption placements for such children, provided suitable and appropriate access arrangements can be made. (more…)
It also makes applicants fully aware of what adoption involves; how adoptive parenthood differs from biological parenthood, and prepares the applicants for the adoption process. (more…)
The Children’s Aid Society of Toronto will provide non-identifying information from our records to adult adopted persons, adoptive parents, birth parents, birth grandparents, birth siblings, birth aunts/uncles and to former Crown Wards. A reunion support group meets at the agency once a month and is open to anyone involved in a reunion. For more information, please call 416-924-4646 ext. 3595 and ask for the Inquiry Coordinator, or email your_roots@TorontoCAS.ca.
Adult adopted persons wishing to obtain a copy of their original birth registration and/or their final adoption order, and birth parents wishing to obtain access to information from their child’s birth records and adoption orders can contact the Ministry of Community and Social Services at www.serviceontario.ca (scroll down to “Adoption Information Disclosure”), or call Service Ontario at 416-325-8305 or toll free at 1-800-461-2156.