CAS clients needed

June 9, 2004 permalink

We repeat here a request from Gary C Dumbrill. He is looking for parents who have received services from Children's Aid.

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Starting in September - I was planning to meet with groups of parents who have received CAS services to develop a "CAS service users guide." This guide would be written by parents for parents.

There are a few ways of getting involved:

1/ If you are a parents and know other parents who have received CAS services, you could form a group and I would come to meet with you.

2/ If you are a CAS worker or supervisor, you could give the parents you are working with the opportunity to take part.

I am really hoping this guide will help parents work WITH the CAS in ways that help children and families. If you are interested, e-mail me and I will give you the full details of the project. This will be set up as a formal University based research project, so there will be an "informed consent" form to sign that sets out the principles (and limits) of confidentiality and measures to protect participants etc. Some enumeration for parents taking part is also possible.

I am really only interested in doing this in Ontario and I will travel anywhere in Ontario to meet with groups, and I can travel more than once so I can meet with each group a few times. Although the project will be based in Ontario, if parents/agencies outside Ontario already have groups working on these issues, I would be willing to travel to meet those groups too - that is if these groups have ideas that would benefit parents in Ontario.

Gary
gary.dumbrill@utoronto.ca