IFCO

INTERNATIONAL FOSTER CARE ORGANIZATION:
WORLD CONFERENCE BID 2011
Please find below copies of the minutes from past planning meetings for our IFCO proposal.

We are pleased to let you know that so far we have received letters of support from:

• Prime Minister S. Harper
• Premier Gordon Campbell
• Victoria Mayor Alan Lowe
• Mary Ellen Turpel- Lafond, BC Representative for CY
• Shelly Johnson, Surrounded By Cedar CFS
• Bruce Parisian, Victoria Native Friendship Centre
• Dr. Bonnie Leadbeater, Director of Centre for Youth and Society – UVIC
• Honorable Judd Buchanan
• Dr. Pam Miller, Director, UVIC School of Social Work
• Dr. Grant Larson, Director, Thompson Rivers University School of Social Work
• Margaret Howley, Foster Parents Support Services
• John Gaiptman, Superintendent of SD 61
• David Burns, CAFCA
• Bruce Parisian, Victoria Native Friendship Centre
• Joan Kirkbride, Okanagan Foster Parents Association
• Grace Neilsen, President, BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship centres
• Anne Smith, COO of AXIS family Resources Ltd.
• Jocelyn Helland, Executive Director, Federation of BC Youth in Care Network
• And others that are held at the BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship centre

January 11, 2008 (pdf)
January 21, 2008 (pdf)
February 19, 2008 (pdf)
March 26, 2008 (pdf)
May 28, 2008 (pdf)

NEXT MEETING: June 25, 2008 at 1:30pm by teleconference. 
Call Surrounded By Cedar at 383.2990 for information.

Click  for information on the International Foster Care Organization
Click for information on the International Foster Care Organization World Conference 2009 in Dublin, Ireland