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More in care foster home shortage CAS Herald staff writer There are more in care of the Halton Children Aid Society CAS than there were five years ago the CAS faces a shortage of foster homes for teenagers Most foster parents want younger children Ann Lor raine Thlesscn supervisor alternate caring department said In an interview There are children In case of the CAS hair of which are in foster homes and 50 per cent of these children are 13 and up There are foster homes in 11 in Acton and three in Georgetown The CAS needs more par The problems icing teen have changed Iras seal In the past five years Mrs The drug prob lem with children is not the in thing any more teen seems to face more adult problems Suicides are a large risk problem in teenagers and can not be ignored Children seem much more depressed and on a deeper serious level than be fore Children seem more out of control of their emotion levels she said is a common problem and perhaps this is the thing for teenagers these days Robbery car theft and each other and strangers with guns used to be common in persons 1BZ5 years of age but now these occurences are happening In a much younger age group she said These facts partly for the reluctance of Foster parents taking in teenagers she mi problem with pi iitiunrs in lir ri is the I ml Hit if pirini I If Minn a pro blem Mrs said the Permits Special occasion permits is by the Liquor Licence Board of Ontario have been approved for in the Georgetown and Memorial Arena to 30 children will enter the and friends if trans erred to CAS from Georgetown and a Burlington and since there Is slightly smaller percentage no transportation the from Acton These children child faces problem of not may not stay In care since the being able to go and talk to a aim or the CAS is to work within the families and keep they w to families together but if the feel that children slay in care more sone parents do not apply to than likely they will have to be foster parents because they stay in a foster home in the afraid they have to be a south end of type of person This region does n mean she said The CAS a thing to a person on the expect to find a perfect street she said The child couple Just someone who feels alienated from family cares enough to give their lime and money she said The CAS pays Tor the child a expenses clothing and food and school supplies and foster parents do not receive a tain sum of money for being a foster parent But the role of a rosier parent is a vital one to the CAS she said In many cases foster par can make contact with natural parents and can com munlcatc with the parents In a way ihat the social worker cannot Also a social worker helps the child and the foster care falls upon the shoulders of the foster par Beside the foster homes In Halton there are three unlls for teenagers two ore family based and one Is a slaftjujoer vised group care unit harder to place children There are about IS children from who have been placed in group homes across the province Sometimes Mrs Thiessen said it Is better for a child to be severed from his some scrapped cases It works out better she home which would have said sessed child a needs before the problem is that the police courts and schools In agency And it would have other communities are saying provided extra beds for emer thai should look after situations its own she said The particular needs of a However this is not an easy solution since there Is a lack of that the main thing she funds available The budget said restraints hat resulted In a few ntw projects that would benefit children being scrap ped she said weaving maCrame materials supplies handmade crafts collectables the weavers house ANNOUNCEMENT- JOHNSON CARNEY LIMITED REALTOR ROBERTSON MBA A rector a Marketing Mr Arthur Johnion Chief Executive Officer is to the appointment ol Mr Marlyna at of he Company or Mr Jack Robert ion Marketing Mr Mortly to the pott of controller Mr Reeve the Director Development and Mr David French to 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