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Chapter 1: The Infants Home, 1875–1890
Page 18-35
-----The development of social services in nineteenth-century Toronto
Page 18-21
-----Baby farms
Page 22-22
-----The founding of the Infants' Home
Page 23-25
-----Medical care
Page 27-27
-----Admissions and discharges
Page 28-29
-----Breast-feeding
Page 30-31
-----Life at the Infants Home
Page 32-32
-----Advocacy and community development
Page 33-33
Chapter 2: A Society to Protect Children, 1891–1919
Page 36-65
-----John Joseph Kelso
Page 36-36
-----Kelso's campaign against child labour
Page 37-37
-----The Humane Society of Toronto is established
Page 38-39
-----Children's Protection Act, 1888
Page 40-40
-----The origins of the children's aid movement
Page 41-41
-----The founding of the Children's Aid Society of Toronto
Page 42-42
-----John Kidson MacDonald
Page 43-43
-----The Children's Charter
Page 44-44
-----Kelso as superintendent of neglected and dependent children
Page 44-45
-----The children's shelter
Page 46-47
-----Life at the shelter
Page 48-48
-----"It is less expensive to save children than to punish criminals"
Page 49-50
-----Summer camp
Page 51-51
-----Substitute family care
Page 52-55
-----Managing the work
Page 56-59
-----Funding the work
Page 60-61
-----Conflict and concern
Page 62-65
Chapter 3: The Growth of Professionalism, 1920–1939
Page 66-95
-----Life in early-twentieth-century Toronto
Page 66-68
-----Vera Moberly
Page 69-69
-----Institutional care to boarding home care
Page 70-72
-----The closing of the Infants' Home shelter
Page 73-73
-----Stable funding for the Infants' Home
Page 74-74
-----Reform at the CAS
Page 75-75
-----John Kidson MacDonald resigns
Page 76-76
-----Bob Mills
Page 76-76
-----"From a jail to a home"
Page 77-77
-----Administrative restructuring
Page 78-78
-----The move to Charles and Isabella streets
Page 79-79
-----Protection work
Page 80-81
-----The development of boarding home care at the CAS
Page 82-84
-----Financial stability
Page 85-86
-----The Infants' Home's work with unmarried mothers
Page 87-89
-----Adoption Act, 1921
Page 90-91
-----The end of the Kelso era
Page 92-95
Chapter 4: War and its Aftermath, 1940–1949
Page 96-107
-----Canada at war
Page 96-97
-----British "war guests"
Page 98-99
-----"Our boys in the King's Forces"
Page 100-100
-----Services to soldiers' families
Page 101-102
-----Post-war staffing challenges
Page 103-103
-----Foster home shortage and a new Receiving Centre
Page 104-104
-----Retirements of Vera Moberly and Bob Mills
Page 105-106
-----Belle Carver and Stewart Sutton
Page 107-107
Chapter 5: Amalgamation and Growth, 1950–1964
Page 108-139
-----Toronto at mid-century
Page 108-110
-----Amalgamation of CAS and Infants' Homes
Page 111-112
-----The challenges posed by amalgamation
Page 113-113
-----A new Child Welfare Centre
Page 114-116
-----Expansion to the suburbs
Page 117-117
-----Stewart Sutton resigns
Page 118-118
-----Lloyd Richardson
Page 119-119
-----Child Welfare Act, 1954
Page 120-121
-----"Changing the course of human life"
Page 122-122
-----Protection work
Page 123-124
-----Work with unmarried parents
Page 125-125
-----Adoption
Page 126-128
-----Foster family and group home care
Page 129-130
-----Institutional care
Page 131-132
-----The Receiving Centre
Page 133-134
-----Moberly House
Page 135-136
-----The society's busiest year
Page 137-139
Chapter 6: The Golden Years, 1965–1977
Page 140-177
-----Toronto in the 1960s and 1970s
Page 140-141
-----The role of children's aid societies
Page 142-143
-----Child Welfare Act, 1965
Page 144-144
-----The agency reorganizes
Page 145-145
-----Prevention and early intervention
Page 146-146
-----Family services
Page 147-148
-----Community development
Page 149-150
-----Homemaker service
Page 151-151
-----Alternate care
Page 152-152
-----Services to youth
Page 153-154
-----Child abuse and neglect
Page 155-155
-----Services to children in care
Page 156-156
-----Homefinding
Page 156-158
-----Foster family care
Page 159-160
-----Foster Parent Association
Page 161-162
-----Residences
Page 163-164
-----Adoption
Page 165-166
-----Medical services
Page 167-167
-----Volunteers
Page 168-168
-----Lloyd Richardson retires and is succeeded by Ed Watson
Page 169-169
-----Pressures for accountability, productivity and efficiency
Page 170-171
-----The society's response to provincial expectations
Page 172-174
-----Union certification
Page 175-175
-----A birthday celebration
Page 176-176
-----Ed Watson resigns
Page 177-177
Chapter 7: Improving the System, 1978–1988
Page 178-223
-----Toronto in the 1980s
Page 178-179
-----The death of Vicky Ellis
Page 180-182
-----The difficulties of protecting children
Page 183-184
-----Making it easier to protect children
Page 185-185
-----Child Welfare Act, 1978
Page 186-186
-----Doug Barr
Page 187-187
-----Child and Family Services Act, 1984
Page 188-190
-----A CAS Foundation to prevent child abuse
Page 191-192
-----The High Risk Infant Program
Page 193-194
-----Sexual abuse
Page 195-195
-----Adoption
Page 11-200
-----The changing role of foster parents
Page 201-201
-----Advocacy
Page 202-202
-----Multiculturalism
Page 203-205
-----Accountability
Page 206-210
-----Cost cutting
Page 211-211
-----Doug Barr resigns
Page 212-214
-----Mel Finlay
Page 215-216
-----The unionized staff go on strike
Page 217-217
-----Mel Finlay resigns
Page 218-218
-----Foster parent slowdown
Page 219-220
-----Pape Adolescent Resource Centre
Page 221-221
-----Innovation and leadership
Page 222-223
Chapter 8: Recession and Reform, 1989–1998
Page 224-267
-----Toronto in the 1990s
Page 224-226
-----Bruce Rivers
Page 227-227
-----Metro CAS in the Nineties
Page 228-229
-----Funding and service challenges of the early 1990s
Page 230-232
-----Early intervention and prevention
Page 233-234
-----Primary prevention through community development
Page 235-236
-----Community partnerships
Page 237-237
-----Young people at risk: homeless and runaway youth
Page 238-239
-----Young people at risk: lesbian, gay and bisexual youth
Page 240-241
-----Child welfare practice in a diverse community
Page 242-243
-----Growing up in care
Page 244-245
-----Continuity of Care
Page 246-247
-----Fostering for Metro CAS
Page 248-250
-----Adoption in the 1990s
Page 251-252
-----Volunteering at Metro CAS
Page 253-254
-----Looking back to the past and forward to the future
Page 255-255
-----A new direction for the CAS Foundation
Page 256-259
-----Child Mortality Task Force
Page 260-260
-----The deaths of Shanay Johnson and Jennifer Koval's'kyj-England Child Welfare Reform
Page 261-267
Appendix 1: Names by which the Agency Has Been Known
Page 276-276
Appendix 2: Presidents and Chief Executive Officers
Page 277-278
Appendix 3: Administrative Offices and Shelters
Page 279-279
Appendix 4: Bibliography and a Note on Sources
Page 280-285
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