Family & Children's Services of FL&A Seeking Board members

Family & Children's Services of FL&A | Aug 19, 2015

Family and Children's Services of Frontenac, Lennox and Addington is looking to recruit new members for the Board of Directors.

We are a Children's Aid Society - a not-for-profit agency that protects children from abuse and neglect. We receive funding and our mandate from the Government of Ontario. We've been serving this community since 1894, making us one of the oldest continuing charities in Southeastern Ontario. Many CASs, like ours, are known as Family and Children's Services.

Every family needs help. We're there when families can't cope. We support them, and help them stay together. Sometimes, children come into our care. When that happens, we try to reunite them with their birth family or with their extended family. In some cases, children can't go back. We take care of them through foster care and try to find them a new permanent family through adoption.

The role of a board member is critical to the work we do. The Board of Directors provides high-level leadership and governance for the agency by providing oversight of the agency's operations, performance and outcomes.

Board Members are expected to attend regular meetings and serve on committees. They are also encouraged to attend agency events and participate in the life the organization.

What we are looking for: The agency strives to have a broad mix of skills, experience and demographic characteristics on the board. At this time we have identified the need for board members who fit one or more of the following criteria (in order of priority):

- Residents of Frontenac, Lennox and Addington outside of Kingston

- Visible minorities

- Experience in one of the following sectors: Justice, Education, Social services, business management, general public sector, experience in Board of Director governance practices, fluency in French.

All applications are welcome - you may still apply even if you do not meet these criteria.

Requirements - To be a member of the Board you must be 18 or older and live or work in Frontenac or Lennox and Addington counties, Ontario. You must also undergo a Criminal Reference Check (Vulnerable Sector Screening). Members of the Board cannot have an undischarged bankruptcy. No employee or spouse or immediate family, nor those under direction of the Agency, are eligible.

Deadline - Applications must be received by Friday, September 11, 2015.

How to apply - Go online to www.JoinOurBoard.ca

Learn more about the Agency - Go online to www.FamilyandChildren.ca.