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	Programs and Services Welfare Advocacy Poverty Advocacy Victim Assistance Child Protection Advocacy Safe Haven Family Law Parenting After Separation Housing Education and Workshops         Child Protection Advocacy The Ministry for Children & Family Development has the difficult and important mandate of ensuring that children are safe from abuse and neglect. If a child protection agency determines that a child is not safe, it has the legal ability to directly intervene through investigation, offering a range of support services to the parent, and, if necessary, can remove a child from the family home. The responsibility and power that child protection agencies have is significant and can appear as a formidable force to a parent who feel that they have lost the ability to make decisions about their child. If you have been contacted by the Ministry for Children & Family Development Social Worker, or if your child has been removed from your custody, or there is a possibility of removal, you are entitled to legal representation and to have an advocate with you when you attend meetings about your child with a social worker. Our advocacy services include: providing information about child welfare law helping you communicate with the Ministry for Children & Family Development and other involved professionals accompaniment to meetings with the social worker accompany you to court help you communicate with your lawyer help you to develop your parenting and safety plans for your children resource and referral information
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