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Welcome to the Family and Children's Services of Waterloo Region website! I hope you will find this an informative way of learning about our agency. Family and Children's Services is the Children's Aid Society for the Region of Waterloo, population 425,000, located approximately 100 kilometres west of Toronto. We have chosen to call ourselves Family and Children's Services because we believe that protecting children means working to support and strengthen families so that children can grow up safely at home, wherever possible.

While we wish all children could grow up safely in their families, that is not always possible and some children have to be cared for by the agency instead. When children have to be protected outside of their own homes, we still keep the emphasis on "family" by finding foster families or adoptive families for children.

Protecting children happens most effectively when the whole community is actively involved in keeping children safe. We can all help protect children by doing things like:

• ensuring our own children are safe, healthy, and loved always
• watching out for all children we may come into contact with day by day, and calling Family and Children's Services if you suspect a child is coming to harm
• giving a helping hand to children who are in need by sharing your family with a foster child, or by volunteering

Family and Children's Services of the Waterloo Region is one of the 54 Children's Aid Societies who, together, help to protect all children in Ontario. All Children's Aid Societies operate under the Child and Family Services Act of Ontario.

Family and Children's Services is proud to have been protecting the children of this community since 1894.

Sincerely,

Peter Ringrose
Executive Director