Begun in 1891, the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto is the largest child welfare agency in North America. It has played a leading roll as an advocate of children’s welfare; it has been instrumental in influencing child welfare practice not only in Ontario but all of Canada and elsewhere. With an emphasis on the post-World War II period, A Legacy of Caring examines the political, social, and economic factors that led to changes within the society itself as well as developments in legislation and social policy. The society has been a training ground for many highly committed professionals who have gone on to be leaders in other governmental and nongovernmental agencies in Canada and abroad.
Authors
Children's Aid Society Foundation, Gail Aitken, Donald F. Bellamy, John McCullagh
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-284) and index
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- 362.7/06/0713541
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- 21
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- Children's Aid Society of Toronto"--Dust jacket Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 1550023357 9781770700925
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- HV746.T6
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- M33 2002eb
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- 1 electronic text (288 p.)
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 14
- Foreword 16
- Chapter 1: The Infants Home, 1875–1890 18
- The development of social services in nineteenth-century Toronto 18
- Baby farms 22
- The founding of the Infants' Home 23
- Staffing 26
- Medical care 27
- Admissions and discharges 28
- Breast-feeding 30
- Life at the Infants Home 32
- Advocacy and community development 33
- Funding 34
- Chapter 2: A Society to Protect Children, 1891–1919 36
- John Joseph Kelso 36
- Kelso's campaign against child labour 37
- The Humane Society of Toronto is established 38
- Children's Protection Act, 1888 40
- The origins of the children's aid movement 41
- The founding of the Children's Aid Society of Toronto 42
- John Kidson MacDonald 43
- The Children's Charter 44
- Kelso as superintendent of neglected and dependent children 44
- The children's shelter 46
- Life at the shelter 48
- "It is less expensive to save children than to punish criminals" 49
- Summer camp 51
- Substitute family care 52
- Managing the work 56
- Funding the work 60
- Conflict and concern 62
- Chapter 3: The Growth of Professionalism, 1920–1939 66
- Life in early-twentieth-century Toronto 66
- Vera Moberly 69
- Institutional care to boarding home care 70
- The closing of the Infants' Home shelter 73
- Stable funding for the Infants' Home 74
- Reform at the CAS 75
- John Kidson MacDonald resigns 76
- Bob Mills 76
- "From a jail to a home" 77
- Administrative restructuring 78
- The move to Charles and Isabella streets 79
- Protection work 80
- The development of boarding home care at the CAS 82
- Financial stability 85
- The Infants' Home's work with unmarried mothers 87
- Adoption Act, 1921 90
- The end of the Kelso era 92
- Chapter 4: War and its Aftermath, 1940–1949 96
- Canada at war 96
- British "war guests" 98
- "Our boys in the King's Forces" 100
- Services to soldiers' families 101
- Post-war staffing challenges 103
- Foster home shortage and a new Receiving Centre 104
- Retirements of Vera Moberly and Bob Mills 105
- Belle Carver and Stewart Sutton 107
- Chapter 5: Amalgamation and Growth, 1950–1964 108
- Toronto at mid-century 108
- Amalgamation of CAS and Infants' Homes 111
- The challenges posed by amalgamation 113
- A new Child Welfare Centre 114
- Expansion to the suburbs 117
- Stewart Sutton resigns 118
- Lloyd Richardson 119
- Child Welfare Act, 1954 120
- "Changing the course of human life" 122
- Protection work 123
- Work with unmarried parents 125
- Adoption 126
- Foster family and group home care 129
- Institutional care 131
- The Receiving Centre 133
- Moberly House 135
- The society's busiest year 137
- Chapter 6: The Golden Years, 1965–1977 140
- Toronto in the 1960s and 1970s 140
- The role of children's aid societies 142
- Child Welfare Act, 1965 144
- The agency reorganizes 145
- Prevention and early intervention 146
- Family services 147
- Community development 149
- Homemaker service 151
- Alternate care 152
- Services to youth 153
- Child abuse and neglect 155
- Services to children in care 156
- Homefinding 156
- Foster family care 159
- Foster Parent Association 161
- Residences 163
- Adoption 165
- Medical services 167
- Volunteers 168
- Lloyd Richardson retires and is succeeded by Ed Watson 169
- Pressures for accountability, productivity and efficiency 170
- The society's response to provincial expectations 172
- Union certification 175
- A birthday celebration 176
- Ed Watson resigns 177
- Chapter 7: Improving the System, 1978–1988 178
- Toronto in the 1980s 178
- The death of Vicky Ellis 180
- The difficulties of protecting children 183
- Making it easier to protect children 185
- Child Welfare Act, 1978 186
- Doug Barr 187
- Child and Family Services Act, 1984 188
- A CAS Foundation to prevent child abuse 191
- The High Risk Infant Program 193
- Sexual abuse 195
- Adoption 11
- The changing role of foster parents 201
- Advocacy 202
- Multiculturalism 203
- Accountability 206
- Cost cutting 211
- Doug Barr resigns 212
- Mel Finlay 215
- The unionized staff go on strike 217
- Mel Finlay resigns 218
- Foster parent slowdown 219
- Pape Adolescent Resource Centre 221
- Innovation and leadership 222
- Chapter 8: Recession and Reform, 1989–1998 224
- Toronto in the 1990s 224
- Bruce Rivers 227
- Metro CAS in the Nineties 228
- Funding and service challenges of the early 1990s 230
- Early intervention and prevention 233
- Primary prevention through community development 235
- Community partnerships 237
- Young people at risk: homeless and runaway youth 238
- Young people at risk: lesbian, gay and bisexual youth 240
- Child welfare practice in a diverse community 242
- Growing up in care 244
- Continuity of Care 246
- Fostering for Metro CAS 248
- Adoption in the 1990s 251
- Volunteering at Metro CAS 253
- Looking back to the past and forward to the future 255
- A new direction for the CAS Foundation 256
- Child Mortality Task Force 260
- The deaths of Shanay Johnson and Jennifer Koval's'kyj-England Child Welfare Reform 261
- Epilogue 268
- Appendix 1: Names by which the Agency Has Been Known 276
- Appendix 2: Presidents and Chief Executive Officers 277
- Appendix 3: Administrative Offices and Shelters 279
- Appendix 4: Bibliography and a Note on Sources 280
- Index 286
- A 286
- B 286
- C 286
- D 287
- E 287
- F 287
- G 287
- H 287
- I 288
- J 288
- K 288
- L 288
- M 288
- N 288
- O 288
- P 288
- Q 289
- R 289
- S 289
- T 289
- U 289
- V 289
- W 289
- Y 289
- Z 289