Child Welfare PAC's new program, Pathways to Apprenticeships, is set to empower former Youth in care, breaking down barriers and highlighting career opportunities in Ontario’s construction sector.

Université Sainte-Anne announces the creation of the Youth in Care Bursary

The Child Welfare Political Action Committee Canada applauds Futures Forward’s work in creating tuition-free opportunities for current and former Manitoba youth in care

University of Ottawa designs a new program to help students leaving the child welfare system

The creation of these bursaries will allow students who have lived through or are currently living in care additional funding to support their academic goals, housing and food costs.

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Carleton University (CU) has partnered with Child Welfare Political Action Committee (Child Welfare PAC) to launch a new tuition program tackling the challenge of equitable access, without age limits, to post-secondary education for current and former youth in care

Seneca is the first GTA postsecondary institution to implement this kind of bursary program.

Child Welfare PAC is pleased that the Fostering Privacy Fairness Act, 2020, co-developed with Sarnia-Lambton MPP Bob Bailey, passed Second Reading with across party support.

Today the Child Welfare Political Action Committee Canada (Child Welfare PAC), a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization of former youth in care, accepted a generous gift of $7,500 from mother and son and co-founders of Stand Up Speak Up.

McMaster will be making places available for up to 20 students from these groups
and accepting applications regardless of the age of applicants if they meet the eligibility
requirements

This legislation seeks to correct a long-standing administrative issue that leaves those raised in foster care with less privacy rights than juvenile offenders.

An additional four post-secondary institutions in London, Ontario have
committed to financial support for up to 35 students who have “aged-out” of the child
protection system.

Board members are responsible for oversight and governance at each of the 51 regional agencies in Ontario.

In Ontario, only eight out of 1,000 foster
children graduate of studies bear out.

Today the Child Welfare PAC, accepted a generous $5,000 donation from Nottawasaga Inn Resort and Conference Centre to support better futures for kids raised in foster care.

This week, the Child Welfare Political Action Committee Canada (Child Welfare
PAC) formally launched its advocacy activities at Queen's Park to compel politicians to redesign the child protection system so that youth succeed after care.

The research, presented at the Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth, was undertaken to better understand the child protection system’s lasting impact on the lives of young people leaving care.

Child Welfare PAC highlights the work of the University of Toronto to bring tuition-free post-secondary opportunities to Ontario’s youth from care.

Wilfrid Laurier University expands their Learners from Care Academic Success Program

IBT College is the first career college to offer tuition waivers to current and former youth in care

The bursary is available to students of all ages pursuing their first postsecondary credential and who meet the eligibility requirements

Nipissing and Canadore will each offer up to five tuition and fee waivers per year to individuals currently or formerly in foster care.

Cape Breton University will launch a new tuition waiver program for former youth in care. The Tuition waiver program was announced during the inaugural Anti-Poverty Conference: Communities Building Hope.

The Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant will fund
the project – led by Dr. Tara Collins of Toronto Metropolitan University.

Wilfrid Laurier University is reducing barriers to university education for individuals who are currently or were formerly in the foster care system through the creation of the Learners from Care Tuition Bursary program

New Brunswick Community College (NBCC) has become the first post-secondary institution in New Brunswick to eliminate tuition barriers for those who have spent a year or more in foster or group home care.

Holland College will waive tuition and related fees for prospective students who are currently in care.

Through the Post-Care Free Tuition Program, eligible learners can apply to have up to 100%
of their NSCC tuition and fees covered. '

The MSVU Post-Care Tuition Waiver Program will cover 100% of participating students’ tuition and compulsory fees.

Loyalist College will waive tuition for those raised in the Ontario foster care system regardless of their age.

On January 01, 2020, the privacy section of the Ontario Child, Youth and Family Services Act, Part X, officially went into effect.

Laurentian University in Sudbury, starting for the 2019-2020 school year, will waive tuition at any age for those raised in the Ontario foster care system as Crown Wards.

The report comes as a timely response to the Ontario government’s third party line-by-line audit of spending.

The Child Welfare Political Action Committee Canada (Child Welfare PAC) formally launched its advocacy activities at Queen's Park today to compel politicians to redesign the child protection system so that youth succeed after care.