Adoption and Foster Care with Amanda Preston

Today in Canada, there are over 30,000 foster children awaiting a permanent adoptive home.

Here are some more stats on the issue:

In any given month there are almost 9,300 children and youth in foster care in Ontario alone, with 800 to 1,000 aging out of the system every year.

Manitoba has the highest provincial average of 33.2 for every 1,000 children in foster care, followed by the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, Saskatchewan and Nunavut.

Over 50% of foster children are indigenous, despite them being under 8% of the national child population.

All foster children, however, who age out of the system are much more likely to experience homelessness, and are more vulnerable to organized crime such as human trafficking.

How has Covid-19 impacted children in foster care?

Experts say that the impacts have been devastating, with many children being isolated from essential support services and counsellors. Some children have actually been placed in care because of the impacts of the pandemic on their parents or primary caregivers.

In spite of the massive need in this area, a 2017 survey found that fewer than 8% of Canadians ranked children at risk as their most important charitable cause, likely because most Canadian simply don’t know how authentic the need of this demographic is.

With us to talk about it is Amanda Preston, who knows the needs well.

Amanda has both fostered and adopted, and after seeing the gaps in the system and so many foster and adoptive parents that need help, she started Home For Every Child, a non-profit to support those who want to foster and adopt. She’s here with us today to give an update on what’s happening in Canada and how we can be a part of the change that these children at risk need.

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