Far from home

After he suffered a traumatic brain injury, an eight-year-old boy in the care of a northern children’s aid society (CAS) was airlifted from his home community to a rehabilitation hospital in southern Ontario.

Issues: Children’s aid society; Rights (Fairness)

After he suffered a traumatic brain injury, an eight-year-old boy in the care of a northern children’s aid society (CAS) was airlifted from his home community to a rehabilitation hospital in southern Ontario. Hospital staff called us when he was ready to be discharged, because they could not reach the boy’s home CAS. We escalated the case to the home CAS service director and discovered there had been a miscommunication between that agency and a southern Ontario CAS about who was responsible for finding the boy a placement that met his special needs. Once we intervened, a placement was soon found and he was able to move out of the hospital.

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