Areas of Endeavour:
The Foster Care Operators’ Association of Ontario has three main areas of endeavour and interest:
- Enhancing overall business practices utilized by member OPRs,
- Enhancing and improving delivery and quality of service provided by member OPRs to the children and youth they serve,
- Enhancing, improving and insuring the strategic positioning and future of Ontario’s OPR Sector within the province’s Child Welfare System.
Enhancing Business Practices
Business professionals and analysts will be giving seminars and workshops at our meetings and conferences to help further the business methods, skills and organizations of our members. In addition, we have formed an affiliation with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business to aid in obtaining prominent speakers and specialists in various business aspects which would be of use to our members.
Since its’ recent beginnings, the association has already improved the insurance environment for all of Ontario’s private operators.
The association will continue to seek out and improve the business alternatives, choices and the quality of those choices available to all members.
Enhancing and Improving Quality of Care
We will be having ongoing seminars and workshops at our meetings and conferences presented by various therapists, specialists and researchers. Various respected parties such as Dr. James Barber, Dean of Social Work – University of Toronto and others will help in the provision of and suggesting speakers, researchers, therapists and topics. All will be in aid of improving the delivery methods and quality of service we, as OPRs provide. Latest methods for operators, parents, staff workers and support staff are continuously presented for the benefit of our members.
Enhancing Strategic Positioning and the Future of the OPR Sector
Our goal is to participate in the future structuring of the best quality care available to Ontario’s children and youth while at the same time providing such in the most cost-efficient manner for Ontario’s taxpayers.
The association has started ongoing research into other methods of foster care delivery, other child welfare systems and jurisdictions, and also research into all areas that might strengthen our position and strategic planning in order to secure our present and both ensure and even improve our future in Ontario’s Child Welfare System.