Peterborough, like the rest of Ontario, has a dire need for foster parents. Why are fewer people signing up?
The number of local foster homes has dropped by more than half since 2020, according to the Kawartha Haliburton Children’s Aid Society
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Child welfare agencies eliminate funding for children’s mental health program
Therapeutic Family Care provides mental health services to children in care and their foster parents. But child welfare agencies facing budget pressures have opted to defund it.
Peterborough children’s aid society places kids in hotel rooms, office, amid province-wide shortage of foster and group homes
It’s the result of the provincial government “chronically underfunding” child welfare and other social services, union representing child protection workers says
This contaminated site is ready to be cleaned up. Will it happen?
Documents obtained by Peterborough Currents offer the fullest account yet to be made public of contamination at the former Outboard Marine property
Peterborough safer supply pilot shares program evaluation amid nation-wide backlash to the approach
Participants' lives are stabilizing and improving thanks to safer supply prescriptions, clinic researchers find
“All about money”: Fleming College leaders face scrutiny over decision to axe 29 programs
Fleming professors and unions say decision was hurried and lacked transparency
The collapse of Electric City Football Club
The arrival of pro football was heralded as a “game changer” for Peterborough. But the project fizzled despite solid showings on the pitch.
“There are no houses for the students”: Local reactions to new international student cap
City council, Fleming and Trent all oppose new federal rules. But views among international students are more mixed.
“We look after the whole person”: Non-profit offers housing – and much more – to women and their children fleeing abuse
Volunteers converted old houses in downtown Peterborough into apartments for women and their children escaping intimate-partner violence starting in the 1980s.
Coalition calls on province to fund new community health centre
Centre would ease the city's "primary care crisis" by serving up to 6,000 marginalized patients, proponents say
Child welfare agencies eliminate funding for children’s mental health program
Therapeutic Family Care provides mental health services to children in care and their foster parents. But child welfare agencies facing budget pressures have opted to defund it.
Peterborough children’s aid society places kids in hotel rooms, office, amid province-wide shortage of foster and group homes
It’s the result of the provincial government “chronically underfunding” child welfare and other social services, union representing child protection workers says
This contaminated site is ready to be cleaned up. Will it happen?
Documents obtained by Peterborough Currents offer the fullest account yet to be made public of contamination at the former Outboard Marine property
Peterborough safer supply pilot shares program evaluation amid nation-wide backlash to the approach
Participants' lives are stabilizing and improving thanks to safer supply prescriptions, clinic researchers find
“All about money”: Fleming College leaders face scrutiny over decision to axe 29 programs
Fleming professors and unions say decision was hurried and lacked transparency
The collapse of Electric City Football Club
The arrival of pro football was heralded as a “game changer” for Peterborough. But the project fizzled despite solid showings on the pitch.
“There are no houses for the students”: Local reactions to new international student cap
City council, Fleming and Trent all oppose new federal rules. But views among international students are more mixed.
“We look after the whole person”: Non-profit offers housing – and much more – to women and their children fleeing abuse
Volunteers converted old houses in downtown Peterborough into apartments for women and their children escaping intimate-partner violence starting in the 1980s.
Coalition calls on province to fund new community health centre
Centre would ease the city's "primary care crisis" by serving up to 6,000 marginalized patients, proponents say
