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
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Mobilizing volunteers to join together standing alongside these mothers in intentional, committed friendships as they navigate the beautiful but new bumpy life of a family.
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Extended families, especially Grandparents, are the traditional first line of support for families in crisis. But amid inter-generational trauma, many grandparent-led families feel overwhelmed and fragile. More grandparents are stepping up every day in Saskatoon to care for their grandchildren struggling in foster or institutional care. But they can't be expected to do it alone.
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Foster parents play a crucial role providing a temporary safe, healing family environment for children in crisis while their birth families heal and prepare for reconciliation. In order to play their role foster parents need encouragement and support.
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1 in 4 Saskatchewan children in care are being housed in institutional settings. Half of them are under age 11, including babies. These children have fallen through all the layers of protective families and often lack even a single ongoing relationship that they can count on in their lives.
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.