Mission Statement
Kettle and Stony Point Child and Family Services is committed to supporting, strengthening, and preserving our Nation’s families to ensure a strong sense of belonging, cultural identity, and long-term well-being. Our work is guided by Anishinaabe values, traditions, and inherent jurisdiction, fostering family and community connections that honor our past while securing a thriving future for our children and youth.
We are dedicated to delivering enhanced prevention services that prioritize keeping families together, reducing involvement in the child welfare system, and empowering families with culturally rooted supports. Through strong community engagement and collaborative partnerships, we work to ensure that every child grows up in a safe, loving and connected environment.
Keeping Families Connected
Children and youth experience greater well-being and stronger life outcomes when they remain connected to their families, community, and culture. Kettle and Stony Point Child and Family Services is actively expanding preventative services that address family needs before child welfare involvement occurs. Child and Family Services works to reunify families that are in the child welfare system by bringing our Nations’s children home, through connections to cultural programs, family and community.
Services:
Kettle and Stony Point Child and Family Services (CFS) offers a wide range of services to support children, youth, and families in building safe, nurturing, and culturally strong environments:
- Prevention & Early Intervention Services – Providing family-focused supports to address challenges before they escalate.
- Customary Care & Kinship Support – Strengthening extended family networks to keep children within the community.
- Community-Based Programming – Offering parenting programs, cultural workshops, and peer support networks.
- Youth & Family Wellness Initiatives – Supporting positive self-identity, mental wellness, and healing through land-based and traditional practices.
- Advocacy & Band Representation – Ensuring CKSPFN families rights are respected in child welfare matters and are supported in legal proceedings.
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Community and Team Approach
Child and Family Services (CFS) uses a wholistic, community approach to family support and healing, working as a team to assist in meeting the needs of children, youth and families. This includes:
- (3) Band Representatives
- (3) Prevention/ Family Support Workers
- VYSA/ High Risk youth Worker
- (2) Customary Care Worker
- Administrative Assistant
- Post Majority Services Manager
- Program Manager
Services for families involved with a child welfare agency
We support families who are involved with or at immediate risk of involvement with the child welfare system. Each family is assigned a Band Representative, who provides advocacy, legal support, and cultural guidance to ensure the rights of our Nation’s families are protected.
Expanded Support Includes:
- Stronger Family Advocacy – Ensuring families receive fair treatment and culturally appropriate services.
- Enhanced Reunification Efforts – Working with extended family, kinship networks, and community supports to bring children home.
- Increased Community Engagement – Holding regular community circles and engagement meetings to ensure families have a say in child welfare decisions.
Our Program Managers work closely with the Nation’s leadership to uphold inherent jurisdiction and reinforce our right to self-determined child welfare practices.
We Are All Connected: Become a Community Care Home (foster home)
As part of our enhanced prevention work, we are actively building community capacity to care for our children within Kettle and Stony Point. By becoming a Community Care Home (foster home), families can provide a safe, stable and culturally grounded environment for children in need.
- Open your home to children needing temporary care within the community.
- Support family reunification efforts by offering short-term care to kin.
- Participate in training and mentorship programs to strengthen caregiving capacity.
Together, we can ensure that no child of CKSPFN is left without family, culture, or community support.
Personnel | KSP Child and Family Services
- Bobbi Whiteye – Program Manager
- Amanda Humphries – Post Majority Services Manager
- Tig-John Ermatinger – Band Representative
- Ember Chapdelaine – Band Representative
- Christa Whiteye – Band Representative
- Shania Cloud – Customary Care Worker
- Danielle Bressette – Customary Care Worker
- Christine Holden – VYSA – High Risk Youth Worker
- Cathy Wolfe – Administrative Assistant
- Eva Bressette – Prevention Lead
- Tania Henry – Prevention Worker
- Charlotte Henry – Prevention Worker
Contact | KSP Child and Family Services
| Days Open: | Monday – Friday |
| Closed: | Lunch 12:00 to 1:00 | Statutory Holidays |
| Telephone: | 519-786-6680 |
| Fax: | 519-786-6668 |
| Email: | By Request Only |
| Mailing Address: | 9156 Tecumseh Lane, Kettle & Stony Point F.N., ON N0N 1J1 |
| Street Address: | Same |
| Website: | None |
| Additional: | If there is an afterhours emergency or you need to report a child protection concern, please call your local authorities and/or Children’s Aid Society. |