Discover your place supporting Saskatoon’s most vulnerable families and children.

Developing relationships to strengthen families at risk of separation.

Our relational approach wraps a community of supportive friendship around at-risk families, keeping more children in homes and families.

Consider that you might have what a vulnerable family needs, just as you are!

Every day in our city children are separated from their families and taken into government care. These children face extremely painful futures. 
Most children could stay with their families, if those families had the right supports. The most effective support is the presence of an intentional team of friends around the caregiver or parent. Without special skills or qualifications, our teams of church-based volunteers are wrapping around and strengthening families to keep children safe and at home.

Simple but intentional relationships are more powerful than you might think! 

Did you know research shows that poverty is the result of broken relationships?

“Poverty: it’s not about giving people more stuff. 

We often make the mistake of defining poverty as the lack of material goods. But this assumes that consumption is the goal of life. Poverty is actually about broken relationships.

When sin entered the world, it damaged our relationship with God, ourselves, others, and all creation.

When people in poverty define poverty, these broken relationships are the focus.”

Source: Chalmers Center, Rethink Poverty - The Chalmers Center

THE CRISIS

Kids in Saskatchewan’s child welfare system are in crisis.

The number of children in need continues to increase. There are not enough homes to care for them.

OUR RESPONSE

Sons & Daughters is strengthening the frontline families who care for the kids in child welfare. 

  • Birth parents reuniting with their children

  • Kinship families like grandparents and aunties, playing a parental role

  • Foster families standing in the gap for those who can’t be with their birth families

BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION

You can help change the story for a child at-risk. We can’t all foster children but we can do something. People from churches across Saskatoon are joining the village of support for at-risk families. We each have a role to play.

Our Programs

PARTNERING WITH THE CHURCH

The dream of God is to see every child in a nurturing family, and to restore relationships that have broken. The church has been commissioned as "God’s ambassadors…ministers of reconciliation” (2 Cor: 18-20).

Refer a family

If you are a local agency looking to refer a family, send an email here.