We are a proud member of our community, both in the City of Guelph and Wellington County. With a team of caring workers and client focused programs, F&CS is involved with programs which work with parents, youth and children toward one primary goal: ensuring the safety and well being of children.
#1 Child Safety and Well-Being
- To provide for the safety, protection and well-being of children.
- To intervene effectively and decisively when children have been harmed or are at risk of serious harm.
#2 Family Support
- To work with children's families, extended family and kin networks, community resources and other caring members of the community to develop creative solutions to child protection issues.
- To develop programs and services that will serve to prevent harm to children and to provide early identification and early intervention in situations where children are at risk.
#3 Community Development
- To promote responsibility for the care and well-being of children throughout the whole community.
- To provide leadership for neighbourhood-based prevention and support programs.
- To access community resources in support of children and families in need, including extended families, foster and adopting families, volunteers, and funding.
- To advocate to strengthen the voice of children in the community.
#4 Looking After Children
- To ensure good parenting for all children in care.
- To provide a stable and permanent plan for all children in care.
- To meet the needs of all children in care, including physical, emotional, educational, cultural, social and spiritual
- To provide a strong and vibrant foster care program so that children in care are nurtured within families wherever possible and appropriate.
#5 Equity and Inclusion
- To promote awareness of how people and organizations can be oppressive and to strive for equity, inclusion and respect throughout our practice.
- To ensure that our structure, policies and services are sensitive to the diverse needs of the children and families we serve and to the communities in which we work.
#6 Quality Assurance, Outcome Measurement and Accountability
- To achieve and demonstrate excellence in all services, programs and agency systems.
- To develop practices that focus on achieving positive outcomes for children and families that can be measured and monitored.
- To be accountable to those we serve, our community partners and our funding partners.
#7 Supportive Environments
- To create environments that children, families, neighbourhood groups, and partner organizations experience as supportive, responsive and effective.
- To build a positive organizational culture based on mutual respect, open communication and teamwork.
- To provide work places that allow staff, foster families and volunteers to do their best work.
- To support a balanced approach to workplace wellness where employee health is valued and is a component of daily and long term decisions and where all employees take an active role in ensuring their own well-being.
