WELLINGTON COUNTY – Family and Children’s Services of Guelph and Wellington County (FCSGWC) received $10,000 after being named one of the recipients of the Halwell Mutual Insurance Company’s Halwell Hope project.
The funding will allow Family and Children’s Services to expand its Early help and prevention program to ensure more struggling families have the support they need during this time of unprecedented challenges, officials note.
Through this new program, Halwell Mutual Insurance Company has committed to donating $100,000 to multiple causes in local communities across southwestern Ontario.
“The funding provided by the Halwell Hope project will help us to expand our early help and prevention initiatives, enabling them to provide even more support to at-risk children and families during the COVID-19 crisis,” stated FCSGWC executive director Sheila Markle.
“Our many years of experience working with children, youth and families has shown us that struggling families who receive support where vulnerabilities exist early on, have much more positive outcomes.”
Through their Prevention and early help programs, Family and Children’s Services works collaboratively with local service providers and other community organizations to offer supports for isolated and struggling families in the Guelph and Wellington communities, helping families to address the challenges that they experience in caring for their children.
These programs have become increasingly important for many struggling families who receive services and support from FCSGWC, especially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, as families continue to face a greater number of challenges.
The funding provided by the Halwell Hope program will play an important role in: supporting families in accessing basic needs, in addition to helping to support and facilitate access to networks of support for isolated and struggling families and helping families to address key stressors that can impact child and family well-being, officials state.
