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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-03-30, Page 15March 30, 1978 imes - Serving South Huron, North Middlesex Advocate & North Lambton Since 1873 Page 15 | New family division judge suggests Children's Aid group still relevant CHEQUE PRESENTED TO USBORNE — One of the many groups that the Kirkton-Woodham Carnival Committee helps to support is the Usborne minor ball association. At the Committee's annual meeting Tuesday evening Lloyd Fletcher handed over a cheque to Sam Skinner representing the association. T-A photo Annual 'night out' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Whalen ladies visit T-A By MRS. HAMILTON HODGINS WHALEN Several Forester ladies from Whalen attended their lodge ‘‘night out” Wed­ nesday with a delicious supper at the Four Way Inn Exeter and a very in­ teresting and informative tour of the Times Advocate. Many thanks to Mrs. Gerald Hern and Mr. Harry DeVries for arranging the tour, A euchre party will be held Friday evening March 31 at 8:30 in the Community Centre. F r ANNUAL MEETING South Perth Ladies Fastbail League Wed., Apr. 5, 8;00 P.M. KIRKTON-WOODHAM COMMUNITY CENTRE Representatives of interested teams please attend, y Mr. & Mrs. Keith Hern and family were Sunday dinner guests with Mr. &' Mrs. Ernest Ferguson. Saturday evening supper guests with Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Johnson were Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Betteridge, Mr. & Mrs. Jim Betteridge and family, St. Marys and Miss Mary Johnson, London. • Louise, Lynn, and Lisa Mardlin spent a couple of days with Mr. & Mrs. Hamilton Hodgins. Friday supper guests with Mr. & Mrs. MacLeod Mills were Donald Davies and Debbie Summers Sarnia and Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Mills, London. Mr. &Mrs. Cecil Bowman were Tuesday dinner guests with Margery Morley. Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Hern and family visited Sunday with Mr. & Mrs. Earl French. ' Mr. & Mrs. Fred Mardlin and girls were Saturday evening supper guests, with Mr. & Mrs. Hamilton Hodgins. Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Hern, Mr. & Mrs. Larry Hern and boys and Mr. & Mrs. Gordon ^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniH I OPERATION I I MOVING Hern were Sunday dinner guests with Mr. & Mrs. Malcolm Spence. Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Johnson spent three days last week attending the Ontario Mutual Insurance annual convention at the Sheraton Centre, Toronto. Bob and Candy Scott and family were Sunday supper guests with Mr. & Mrs. John Scott. was Greenway By MANUEL CURTS The Easter service well attended at the United Church on Sunday. Many young people who are em­ ployed away from home attended the service with their parents. Easter lilies and floral arrangements were placed in the church by Mr. & Mrs. Norman Wilson, in memory of Norman’s father who died in Chateau Gardens, Parkhill, last Tuesday. ALL STOCK REDUCED 10% to 50% Thanks for Shopping at McKnights CHARGEX VISA Len McKnight & Sons MEN S WEAR Exeter 235-2320 nllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllln Personals Mr. & Mrs. Milton Pollock have returned following a few weeks holiday in Florida. Mrs. Ettie Bullock is a patient 1 in Strathroy Hospital. Mrs. Edna Woodburn returned home on Sunday, following a four week stay in St. Joseph’s Hospital, London. The sympathy of this community is extended to the relatives of the late Charlie Atkinson, Centralia. Mrs. Atkinson is the former Viola Eagleson. Fifteen people attended the regular Monday evening Bible study conducted by the Rev. Harley Moore at the home of Evel yn and Manuel Curts. By the way-Senior Citizens-“Don’t worry about your hair falling out. Con­ sider what would happen if it ached first, and had to be pulled like teeth. home ‘‘There is no doubt in my mind that the Children’s Aid Society is a most relevant institution today,” said Judge John Gammell at the 67th annual Huron County Family and Children’s Ser­ vices (Children’s Aid Society) meeting held Wednesday, March 15. Judge Gammell was ap­ pointed provincial court judge, family division for the counties of Grey, Bruce and Huron February 6. As a former lawyer, he worked with youth in the maximum security division of the men- tal health centre Penetanguishene, There, he said, he came into contact with a broad range of men­ tal illness with the most bizarre results. Every case was different, he said, but there were certain constants too. One of the constants Judge Gammell spoke of was a past history of child abuse in the lives of criminals or mentally ill people. This abuse, he said, could be physical or emotional, inten­ tional or unintentional. The battered child situa­ tion snowballs he said. Battered children usually become battering parents and lead lives of conflict with other people. And the battered child is only the tip of the iceberg he said. Erpotional maltreatment can be just as severe with the consequences appearing years later. Judge Gammell said society has been picking up the pieces in child abuse cases for a long time. This is a costly item with a growing number of people being kept in jails and mental in­ stitutions. ‘‘There must be more prevention than protection if society is to survive,” he concluded. He urged the Family and Children’s Services agency to direct more economics toward prevention. John Penn, local director of Huron County’s Family and Children’s Services, agreed with Judge Gammell and said that prevention was the route to go. He said he thought that the agency could help cure families’ ills with preventative medicine. As he outlined in his annual report, many of the agency’s 1978 programs are designed to help a family spot problems and work with the agency to solve them. Although many families 11 CANADA PENSION PLAN CHANGES. Divorce or Annulment. CPP pension credits earned by a husband and wife during marriage may be divided equally between them if the marriage ends in divorce or annulment after January 1,1978. This ensures that an asset accumulated through the efforts of both spouses while they were married can be shared equally by both when the marriage is dissolved. Retroactive Payment of Retirement Benefits. Retirement benefits may now be paid retroactively for a period of up to 12 months to contributors who had attained age 65 but who are under age 70 and who have retired from the labour forc^e. Post-Mortem Benefits. Applications for retroactive benefits (i.e. up to 12 months) can now be made on behalf, of a deceased person, in cases where a contributor qualified, but failed to apply, before death. Families or estates will be entitled to receive benefits in such cases. Elimination of Reductions in Children’s Benefits. Orphans’ and disabled contributors’ children’s benefits are no longer reduced for the fifth and subsequent children. All children in a family, regardless of its size, are eligible to receive equal benefits. These important amendments to the Canada Pension Plan came into force on January 1st, 1978. If you have any questions, contact the Canada Pension Plan office nearest.you: T , ,... t . ......... .. ... ,, . , , ■ ■ Hearth and Warfare Sant6 et Bien-Atre social Canada Canada Monique B^flin, Minister Monique Bdgin, Ministre London Federal Building 451 Talbot Street 11th Floor N6A 5C9 Tel. (519) 679-4121 .. .................................. request help for one child, said Penn, those at the agen­ cy feel that the real client and the focus of services is the entire family unit. This is one of the reasons why the Children’s Aid Society changed its name this year to Family and Children’s Services. During 1977, said Penn in his report, the agency work­ ed with 344 families and assisted many others for brief periods of time. The number of children in the care of the agency rose dramatically between April and August 1977 said Penn. Most of these children had been living with abusing ■ families who had been iden­ tified through the communi­ ty child abuse program. The adoption picture, reported Penn, remained similar to previous years. The adoptions of 15 children were finalized during the year. While infants available for adoption re­ main scarce he said, the need for homes prepared to adopt the older child is growing. Penn reports that during the year 1977, the agency was actively involved in various communities across the county. The Community Child Abuse Committees, com­ posed of professionals who are involved daily with children, met several times during the year. This com­ mittee certainly did its work said Penn. The number of abusing families that the ’agency assisted increased over 500 per cent during its lifespan. The program aimed at community awareness, inter-professional co­ operation and early detec­ tion of high risk families. It was cancelled late in the year as a result of budgetary restrictions imposed by the Ministry of Community and Social Services. In September, an outreach office was started up to make the agency’s service more available to the people living in the Huron Park area, reported Penn. Two students from the Social Work program at King’s College, London, manned the office three davs a week. The Vanastra Resource Centre progressed from a planning group of concerned citizens and professionals to a Canada Works Grant employing four full-time staff for one year in 1977. The agency, reported Penn, has invested both professional and financial resources ($500) and is mak­ ing its services available to the Vanastra community throught the Centre. A total of 39 children were able to go to summer camp in 1977. During 1977 parent educa­ tion groups were held in Seaforth and Exeter in­ volving over 30 families. The social work staff, said Penn, was involved in many group meetings throughout the county showing films and in­ forming people of the work of the agency. Penn reported that the Christmas project was a great success again in 1977. About 190 families were directly assisted through this annual event. In his report of objectives for the agency in 1978, Penn said there would be several additional objectives besides fulfilling the re­ quirements of the Child Welfare Act in the areas of family services, child care and adoption. In conjunction with the Rural Outreach Project, Guelph University, there will be three one day workshops in May on child development, nutrition and budget counselling said Penn. Another objective, he said, would be the reinstate* ment of the inter­ professional child abuse committee. He said the agency Would also try to secure funding for a child abuse project in consulta­ tion with Guelph University. Other objectives include securing funding for a Young Canada Works grant to operate a summer project in Huron Park; to continue and expand the Huron Park Outreach Project; to repeat the summer camp program; to continue involvement in the Vanastra Resources Centre; to appoint a senior social worker to expand the prevention programs and the marriage and family counselling services: to repeat the Christmas pro­ ject; to further develop preventative programs in the county like parent education groups; and to fund a proposal to survey the service needs of families and children in Huron Coun­ ty. Guelph University per­ sonnel shall complete this survey if funded by the Federal Government. In conclusion, Penn said, the key to fulfilling any of these objectives is the ac­ tive support and co­ operation of board members, staff, foster parents and the community. The last few years, he said, have been marked by severe fiscal restraints imposed by the Ontario Government but people resources have con­ tinued to expand. These peo­ ple resources include the time, efforts and dedication of social workers, support staff, board members, foster parents, volunteers and the many individuals and groups who give finan­ cial support for special pro­ jects. Financial reports for 1977 showed that the Family and Children’s Services of Huron County had spent $562,348. This expenditure was made up by the province (80 per cent), the county (20 per cent) and an accumulated revenue of $3,569 from other years. A statistical overview showed that the total number of families served rose from 329 in 1976 to 344 in 1977. The number of children helped in their own homes rose significantly from 277 to 375. Unmarried parents helped rose from 13 to 16. Total children in care homes or institutions as compared to 65 in 1976. during the year dropped 1977. 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