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helping families for 75 years
from page 1
says.
Esther Ross, another social worker for
the Huron Children's Aid, has praise for
both Chaffee and McGowan as
supervisors.
"Mrs. Chaffee was wise and a great
teacher. We couldn't have gotten any hot-
ter teaching from a school. And, Miss
McGowan let us have responsibility for
certain parts of our work. She trusted us
and depended on us and we grew under
her," she says. •
Ross taught for 12 years before becom-
ing a foster parent, an adoptive parent and
then a social worker for 27 years. "I'm cer-
tain being a foster parent was a gateway to
getting on the staff," she says.
Ross worked as the protection worker
going to court and dealing with crisis in-
tervention and child abuse. She says the
job was always very exciting.
"I remember one weekend being called
by a child who told me her Mama was
down in the basement trying to find some
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police and no hanging took place.
"Another time, a child's mother was
locked in the bathroom swallowing pills.
She came to the phone and told me she'd
taken 90 pills so the police rushed her to the
hospital to have her stomach pumped."
It turned out that the woman had only
taken tree pills but Ross says every situa-
tion was taken seriously and there were no
tragedies while she worked as a social
worker.
One particular crisis (they always seem-
ed to happen on Friday nights, she recalls)
involved a call from concerned neighbors
that no one had been seen outside a house
for days during a blizzard.
Three social workers travelled across
the county and found a mother and four
pre-schoolers who were literally freezing
to death in the house. One small stove was
the only heat in the house but it was throw-
ing off so little heat that Ross was able to
put her papers down and write on it.
"The children's feet were all frost-bitten
and we had to carry them all out, including
the dog, in snow up toour waists. We
always responded to crisis calls," she
says.
Ross says that her years as a social
worker taught her admiration for the peo-
ple she worked with.
"These people coped against tremen-
dous odds with such courage. Some pro-
blems seem to go for generations in some
families because it's often very difficult to
get out if you're behind the eight ball," she
says.
"A lot of our work was listening to people
to let them know you cared and took them
Seriously, We weren't supposed to tell peo-
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they would figure out what to do."
Ross says she's seen the trend- change
from taking children out of the home to
help them to keeping children in the home
unless their lives are endangered.
"The whole system is geared now to
keeping families together and I think
that's a good thing," she says.
She says she's also seen a change in at-
titude towards children. While during the
turn of the century, children were regard-
ed as possessions of their parents who had
• the right to do anything to discipline them,
children are now regarded as individuals
with rights.
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Marion Hindmarsh began her job at the
Children's Aid in 1967 and stayed for 13
years. She says she saw the adoption rate
drop dramatically during her career.
"At one time we were placing up to one
baby a week but in the early 70s the babies
dropped off because birth control became
available and it was more acceptable for
illegitimate children to be raised by their
mothers," she says.
She says Huron County enjoyed the
special, unique situation of having a
wonderful network of foster homes.
Though work at the Children's Aid was a
continual series of crises, she says the
agency began in the 70s leaning towards
prevention by moving in the direction of
teaching people how to parent and
teaching people how to work through pro-
blems in their marriages.
During the 60s and 70s came the problem
of drug abuse to which kids seemed most
vulnerable. There were also problems with
runaways, threats of suicide, child abuse
and foster home breakdown.
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from her work, Hindmarsh says she
doesn't think the rewards carne as much
from effecting change as from learning
from the people she worked with.
"Being a social worker meant a gradual
enriching of my understanding of people,"
she says.
John Penn, the present director of Family
and Children's Services in Huron, says the
agency has benefitted from the legacy of
previous social workers.
"There is an ethic in this agency of doing
what has to be done. It carries on as an old
tradition," he says.
But he sees an change in the emphasis
from rescuing kids from bad situations to
helping a family solve its problems and
stay together.
"There hasn't always been an
understanding of family dynamics. People
used to think putting kids in another en-
vironment would straighten them out.
They didn't understand that bad family
situations also had good aspects. The
father that hits his kids also takes them to
ball games. We recognize that the process
is much more intricate today," he says.
He says that tighter legislation has also
made social workers more accountable for
their decisions. Every year, the files of 25
children in, care are closely audited by the
ministry to make sure they're receiving
proper care.
"We get much more money to do pro-
grams which will help kids but keep them
at home. We have programs in parent
training and adolescent support groups to
do that," he says.
And, while the agency was once largely
funded through voluntary donations, it is
now funded 80 per cent by the provincial
government which lends to a greater con-
tinuity of care throughout the province.
Still, some misconceptions continue that
social workers want to snatch kids into
care, he says but those ideas are weaken-
. ing. "Our orientation is always to look at
the child in context of the family," he says.
Jdst 'aS' it" is no' fonger'' hCtis'ptable 'for
children to be separated from their
parents because of economic reasons,
Penn says society believes it is less and
less acceptable for child abuse to happen.
"I think society is much more protective
of kids these days. Twenty years ago, peo-
ple were reluctant to become involved in
child abuse cases but they're not as
tolerant of that stuff as they used to be," he
says.
Asking for help has also become more
acceptable since the majority of families
working with the agency have requested
that help.
To celebrate the 75 years that Family
and Children's Services has been in ex-
istance in Huron County, a banquet will be
held on Oct. 29.
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