The BCFSO focuses on black children, youths and their families. We provide guidance, counselling and other support services to black families for the prevention of circumstances requiring the protection of black children. We provide and supervise the care of black children that potentially will be assigned or committed to the BCFSO. We will investigate allegations and provide evidence of abuse of black children in need of protection. We will promote and protect black children where necessary. We will provide services on mental health, grassroots parenting, cultural diversity, mentoring, employment, education, child welfare, teen pregnancy, drugs, learning disabilities, gaming and technology, abuse, black LGBTQQIP2SAA and human trafficking.
Investing in our black youths from the grassroots level is extremely important. We must be culturally focussed as we implement strategies and crisis intervention to assist families. We will introduce different types of parental initiatives to assist parents that are on welfare, newcomers, parents who have children with learning disabilities and the black LGBTQQIP2SAA. We will provide mentoring programs to guide teen pregnancy and different team initiatives.
I understand our youths and being black is extremely important. Understanding the history of the black culture is taking one step back to go many steps forward. This program is called “For blacks by blacks” and it will focus on the black individuals as they transitioned throughout life over the past 400 years. It is the history of our struggles that our forefathers went through, and the hard work they’ve done, to try and pave the way to give us an opportunity. It is a lesson that there’s still work to be done, and it’s up to this generation to make all the necessary changes, implementing different types of strategies, coping mechanisms, and finding a way to deal with systemic racism while trying to put an end to it.
We will support black children and their desire to achieve what they want. We will respect and value what they want to become in life and a career that they choose. We will not lower their standards, nor attempt to change their minds or alter their suggestions. We will collect information, and provide feedback given them an opportunity to make the correct choices in the direction that they want to go.
We support higher education and recognizing certain types of disabilities from early on is important. We know now quite a bit of information from the DMV and how to deal with many of the learning situations our youth experience. Most families need additional assistance in terms of support for their children. The support is in the form of grassroots parenting and crisis intervention when the situation can be out of control. Understanding that many of our children and youth may not want a career working for someone, and recognizing certain skills at an early age, while implementing strategies and directing them after grade 8 into grade 9 to a skills development or a trade program can be beneficial in the future.
We have an interest in the black community and outreaching and engaging with our youths are our priority. Community involvement is an extension of parental responsibility, and we believe with that extension we can provide a lot of life’s most valuable lessons in real time. Community involvement leads to volunteering, Life skills, sports, education and a lifelong friendship. Community involvement leads to peer relationships, and promotion of anti-violence
Our board of directors have lived in Scarborough for over 30 years. Not only have they lived in Scarborough, but they worked with at-risk youth in many high-risk neighbourhoods, and we continue to assist many of these individuals as they transition with their families to other surrounding areas inside and outside of Scarborough/Toronto. Our BOD will ensure that all our black children are represented, and No Child Left Behind.