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INFERTILITY   ADOPTION   POST-ADOPTION   FAMILY TREE   Adoption Resource Central    Heart of Adoption Articles to inspire   International adoption guide   You can order Family Helper publications		Photolistings at AdoptOntario web site: Ontario children seek homes BY ROBIN HILBORN, Family Helper editor
		(Feb. 11, 2004) Two new photolisting web sites were launched in 2004 to try to find adoptive families for Ontario children: -- AdoptOntario, www.adoptontario.ca, by the Adoption Council of Ontario, lists Ontario children seeking permanent homes. To view profiles of children you apply for a password. Children described are just some of those available through the 52 provincial children's aid societies. -- Winning Kids, www.fosteradoptwinningkids.com, is a joint effort of 12 children's aid societies in Eastern Ontario. For more, see Adoption Council of Canada, "AdoptOntario Web Site", www.adoption.ca/news/040518adoptontario.htm New coordinator for "AdoptOntario" recruitment project -- On Nov. 1, 2003 AdoptOntario gained a new Clinical Co-ordinator. Kathleen Duda (info@adoptontario.ca) took over from Janice Smith. The AdoptOntario project aims to find adoptive homes for Ontario crown wards with special needs. It's run by the Adoption Council of Ontario (ACO, aco@adoption.ca, www.adoption.on.ca) and is funded through June 30, 2006 by the Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Ministry of Culture which gets $100 million a year from Ontario casino receipts. In 2001 OTF awarded ACO $250,000. Since late 2002, AdoptOntario has taken over the monthly Today's Child column in the Saturday Toronto Star. Between January 2003 and January 2004, 20 Ontario children were featured, 99 families responded and were interviewed, and nine children found adoptive homes. The clinical co-ordinator prepares profiles of children to be featured at Today's Child and the AdoptOntario web site, www.adoptontario.ca. She responds to enquiries from would-be parents and works with the children's agencies and private practitioners to find the most appropriate homes. The half-time position pays $35,000 a year. In September 2001 the Ontario Trillium Foundation awarded the Adoption Council of Ontario $250,000 for AdoptOntario, a program to find permanent homes for Ontario children waiting to be adopted. It tries to recruit Ontario families to adopt special needs children in the care of children's aid societies. Janice Smith started work as Clinical Co-ordinator on Sept. 4, 2001. The Trillium Foundation gives grants to charities and not-for-profit organizations. ________________________________________ You may reproduce this item with the credit: "Source: Family Helper (www.familyhelper.net)"