Community Announcements

Relay for Life Hamilton

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:39:00 GMT

Relay for Life Hamilton is in need of volunteers: People to help with set up/take down, help with games and activities, parking, food services. In addition, the days leading up to the event, helping set up team packages, as well luminaries.

To sign up click HERE. As well by emailing Andrew at andrewmontgom@trentu.ca

An Instrument For Every Child

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:43:00 GMT

An Instrument For Every Child (AIFEC) provides ALL children with a high quality music education and allows them to explore their creative potential. This program will build self-esteem, develop leadership and teamwork skills and realize a sense of fulfillment. AIFEC will greatly assist in successfully carrying children forward, as vital citizens of their community.

There are many levels available to support this program. You can choose from sponsoring a single child, a classroom, a school, or you can become a program partner by matching the annual contribution of the Founding Sponsor Paul Lloyd of PasWord Group.

Hamilton is the first community in Canada to a undertake musical education program of this nature. As they work towards their major goal of "10 X 15" (10 schools by 2015) their immediate need is to raise $35,000 to purchase musical instruments for 160 students by September 2013.

CCASH in Critical Need of New Foster Mom’s This Mother’s Day

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:23:00 GMT

The Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Hamilton (CCASH) is urgently in need of more foster homes for infants and adolescents. Currently, the Catholic Children's Aid Society of Hamilton is providing foster care for 187 children in 87 foster homes.

On Sunday we celebrate all that our mothers have done for us, which reminds us here at CCASH of the extraordinary role that a foster mother plays in the life of some of the most vulnerable children in our community. She shares her love, her home, and her family, in order to provide a safe and stable environment for a child that desperately needs it.

Foster families come in all shapes and sizes. Some foster parents are married and some are single. Some already have children of their own, and some do not. Foster parents can work outside the home, be a stay at home parent, or retired. Foster families come from varying cultural backgrounds and income levels.

Foster parents work with CCASH as part of a team to develop a plan to care for each child and youth. This could include reuniting children with their birth families, making an adoption plan or placing the child in long-term foster care. They work closely with CCASH to provide temporary care to children and youth for a few days, a week, several months or possibly years. The Catholic Children's Aid Society of Hamilton supports foster families through assessment, training and education, ongoing assistance as well as financial supports for the child’s care, food and clothing.

Even with 87 families fostering for CCASH, more foster families are needed who can provide safe, loving, secure homes to the vulnerable children and youth who come into care. CCASH is always in need of more foster homes for children of all ages. However at this time there is a critical shortage of foster homes for infants and adolescents.

Interested foster families can contact 905-525-CARE (2273).

Adoption and Foster Parents Information Night

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:50:00 GMT

Have You Ever Considered Building Your Family Through Adoption or By Becoming a Foster Parent?

On Tuesday June 11, 2013 between 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., come join the Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Hamilton at the upcoming Information Night and get all your questions answered.

It will take place at the Cardinal Newman Catholic Secondary School. Located at 127 Grays Road, Stoney Creek.

For more information, or to register, please contact Megan Dunlop-Elms, (905) 525-2012 ext. 3257 or email

megan.dunlop-elms@hamiltonccas.on.ca

Visit their website http://www.hamiltonccas.on.ca/

Adoption Information Night

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:46:00 GMT

Have You Ever Considered Building Your Family Through Adoption?

Wednesday May 22, 2013 - 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m., come join the Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Hamilton at the upcoming Information Night and get all your questions answered.

Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Hamilton
735 King Street East, Hamilton

For more information, or to register, please contact Jocelyn Jacobs, (905) 525-2012 ext. 3125 or email jocelyn.jacobs@hamiltonccas.on.ca

Visit their website www.hamiltonccas.on.ca

Hamilton Helmet Initiative

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 04:00:00 GMT

Protect Your Brain. Put a Lid On It!

The Hamilton Helmet Initiative is a partnership of community organizations with the common goal to reduce brain injuries by increasing access to helmets and providing education through supportive programs.

The aim is to distribute 10,000 FREE helmets to those who are unable to afford them in 2013.

The concept of this program is:
- To make low cost helmets available to students and families in the community
- To make free helmets available to students and families in the community who cannot afford to purchase them
- To provide each school with $1 per helmet sold to put toward school-based initiatives
- To provide a portion of each helmet sale to the "Donate a Helmet Program" which provides free helmets to students and families in need
- To provide a portion of each helmet sale to the "McMaster Children's Hospital Foundation"
- To ensure that children and parents are provided with education through supportive programs in schools and the community

For more information and sponsorships, please contact Tarick Mirza at tarick1@sevenstarsports.com or 905-574-9270 x 226
You can also contact Zsuzsi Trim at zsuzsi.trim@hamilton.ca or 905-546-2424 x 3762