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Durham Foster Parent Association
Working Together to Make a Difference.
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The Foster Parent Association's goal is to make a difference in the lives of children and their families. We work together as partners to improve methods that affect our children in care. With patience, kindness, knowledge, guidance and an understanding we will make a difference. We know that it is not easy to care for someone else’s child and, that it will be extremely difficult for the child in care. It takes an amount of energy, skill, respect, perseverance and love. Being a foster parent is an honorable and rewarding experience that will last a lifetime for your family and the children you care for. Together as a group of caring partners we share ideas, skills, knowledge and education.
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All children will face challenges and regrettably, face disappointments at one time or another. When family creates an unhealthy environment for a child, removal from the home becomes necessary. Foster families provide safe, caring environments for children who are unable to remain in their home. The objective of foster care is to provide the child with a family environment to facilitate child development. Foster care strives to create an environment which promotes positive relationships between the caregiver, the child and the child’s family. When a child is entering foster care, kinship or adoption, they come with a tremendous amount of loss. Losses that include birth parents, extended family, home, pets, schools, friends, personal belongings, and in some cases culture. We are a diverse society and culture, language, religion, and values must be respected and safeguarded.
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The ideal plan is to reunite children with their family. Many families can get the help they need and reunite with their children. When a reunion is not possible, the plan may include adoption, kinship care or long-term foster care. Foster Parents work by helping children deal with this grief and trauma. Foster Parents are committed to giving the children the dignity they deserve. Children need to express their feelings freely and we recognize that children’s fears, sadness and anger can have long-lasting effects on their lives. With perseverance, validation and empowerment, many children will have the ability to face challenges and to endure them with courage.
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Children have been and continue to be the most oppressed, exploited and victimized group of human beings on the planet. Children remain the most voiceless and the most discriminated against group of people in all societies. While every adult group has fought for and won basic human rights protections and freedom, children remain the only group of human beings without the same rights to equality, respect, protection from bodily harm and freedom of speech. It is unthinkable and unjust that we have stopped short of fully including children when we fight so hard to establish basic human rights protections for all people. We need to be voices for children and fight for children's voices to be heard. We need to advocate for kids' sake. Children need to know their rights and their rights need to be respected! It is always our goal to keep our foster children's best interest at the forefront at all times. ADHD Children At-Risk for Tardive Dyskinesia in Adulthood Lawyer takes on psychiatric industry for over-prescribing foster children Ontario Child Benefit Equivalent (OCBE) OCBE pooled fund
 Child and Family Services Act
There are two other forms of family care options
- Kinship Service allows child welfare agencies to provide services that ensure child safety in circumstances where the child is not in the care of an agency and remains within his/her family or community.
- Kinship Care is provided for children who are in the care of a child welfare agency and are placed with a member of their extended family or community.
Learn more about foster parent training for Children’s Aid Society caregivers or more about Kinship Service and Kinship Care.
How to Make a Complaint
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Foster Parents – Providing Care, Respect, Integrity and Trust in our Children, our Society and in Ourselves. Be Proud of Who You Are and What You Do.
CCHR Int's New Psychiatric Drug Search Engine—310 International Drug Regulatory Warnings & Studies & 194,000 Adverse psychiatric drug reaction reports
Health Canada: There is growing evidence that throwing out or flushing into the water system prescription drugs, non-prescription drugs and other health products may have a harmful effect on the environment.
Overview of acquired peripheral neuropathies in children 26,771 people reported to have Risperdalside effects
Standards of Care for the Administration of Psychotropic Medications
Everyone – direct care workers, foster parents, caregivers, parents, families, and children and youth themselves – should know who they can contact and what resources are available if they have urgent or non‐urgent questions or concerns about psychotropic medications. Immediate medical attention should be sought if the child or youth taking psychotropic medication exhibits stiffness, muscle weakness, unusual or repetitive motor movement, lethargy, disorientation or confusion, bizarre behaviour, severe agitation, suicidal thought or behaviour.
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New Video from CCHR International: Green Mental Health Care: The Alternative to Toxic Psychiatric Drugs
Psychiatry's solution to life's problems is the administration of toxic drugs which according to the FDA can cause mania, worsening depression, anxiety, delusions, seizures, liver failure, suicide, mania, heart attack, stroke, fatal blood clots, sudden death, diabetes and much more. Green Mental Health Care is a non-toxic, non-addictive and non-invasive approach to mental health which focuses on workable medical, not psychiatric, solutions that have better patient outcomes and are not harmful or toxic to those seeking help.
Featuring nutritional biochemist Genita Petralli
"My life is dedicated to reclaiming lives from psychiatric drugs and exposing psychiatry for what it is; a gang of white collar drug pushers robbing our society of every resource that supports it right down to our future; the children. To sit on the sidelines and do nothing while I watch people suffer from the effects of psychiatric drugs is not an option."
Genita Petralli
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome: A potentially fatal syndrome associated primarily with the use of neuroleptic agents (see ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS) which are in turn associated with dopaminergic receptor blockade (see RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE) in the BASAL GANGLIA and HYPOTHALAMUS, and sympathetic dysregulation. Clinical features include diffuse MUSCLE RIGIDITY; TREMOR; high FEVER; diaphoresis; labile blood pressure; cognitive dysfunction; and autonomic disturbances. This report describes neuroleptic malignant syndrome in a previously healthy 6-year-old child.
Drugging Children for Profit, Psychiatry, Big Pharma 1
Dr. Breeding and his guest Josh discus the common use of child drugging using psychotropic mind altering drugs. These include classes of drugs such as antipsychotic, antidepressants, amphetamines and ADHD drugs, and anticonvulsants.
Many of these drugs are dangerous with an number of harmful side effects including both physical and mental effects.
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Dr. Joseph Biederman Plays God With ADHD Meds
 A new children's rights colouring book "Color it Rights" was developed by Cape Breton
Want to teach young children about their rights?
Color it Rights was developed to teach children aged 4-7 about their rights.
Feel free to download the coloring book and teachers guide here.
Teachers Guide Here
Coloring Book Here
“Wants and Rights” cards may be found here: PRINTABLE RIGHTS CARD Wants and Rights Cards For youth cards they are found here: Wants and Rights Cards
The Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry vs Adult Psychiatry who should your child see?
"RIGHTS OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN FOSTER CARE"
Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Head Office:
Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office
55 St. Clair Avenue West
Suite 802, Box 28
Toronto, Ontario
M4V 2Y7
Telephone: (416) 327-7000
Toll Free: 1-800-578-2343
Fax: (416) 327-7008
Drug-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy Drug-Induced Myopathy and Neuropathy
Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)
Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) is a problem with the way incoming sounds are processed by the brain. Sounds are received properly by the ear, but are not processed and interpreted correctly by the brain. This disorder primarily affects language sounds and can cause problems with paying attention to auditory input, descriminating between sounds, remembering and recalling auditory information, and higher level thinking skills involving auditory information. CAPD may lead to language and behaviour problems and often looks like Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder (ADHD). Toxic Neuropathy Peripheral Neuropathy Treatments Guide to Peripheral Neuropathy Neuropathy is a common side effect of certain medications The Major Side Effects of Statin Drugs
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Please take a moment to watch our latest video - its only 2 minutes long but contains many facts
about the psychiatric drugging of children, and also directs people/parents where
to go to get the FACTS about psychiatric drugs - our new, one of a kind, psychiatric drug database.
- CCHR International
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Mad in America: bad science, bad medicine, and the enduring mistreatment
A MUST WATCH VIDEO'S ...FRONTLINE THE MEDICATED CHILD
McGuinty Government Creates Championship Teams And Improves Financial Support
February 19, 2009
Ontario is helping Crown wards succeed at college and university.
Ontario Child Benefit Increase On The Way July 8, 2009 Beginning this month, low-income families will receive more money through the Ontario Child Benefit to help with the cost of raising their children. The benefit will reach 1.3 million kids and is almost doubling to a maximum of $1,100 per child this year, up from a maximum of $600 last year.
Foster kids to get money for recreation, savings plans
June 27, 2008
February 19, 2009 Ontario is helping Crown wards
Psychotropic Drugs: Consents required for use of psychotropic drug: 132.(1) A service provider shall not administer or permit the administration of a psychotropic drug to a child in the service provider’s care without Read Background 2 - Best Interests of the ChildBackground 3 - Accountability BILL 210: section 15 of Bill 210 that a CFSA order takes precedence over an order made under the CLRA in respect of the child
National Youth In Care Network
The stories of 59 Canadian systems youth and 97 child and youth-serving professionals revealed how and when psychotropic are used; the consequences and benefits associated with this method of service provision; and the lack of appropriate resources and support for youth and caregivers alike. Alongside our findings, the NYICN has presented over 30 recommendations intended to improve protocols and accountability frameworks that determine and support the healing needs of all young people in care. Full Report - free download (Acrobat PDF file) Executive Report - free download (Acrobat PDF file)
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