Granting

Granting Programs

The Lex Reynolds Adoption and Permanency Trust Fund (“the Trust”) awards grants for collaborative projects and programs that use innovative approaches to support lifelong connections. In particular, we look for:

  • New, unique and experimental approaches;
  • Evidence of collaboration or partnerships;
  • Experience with adoption and/or permanency;
  • Capacity to deliver the proposed project, program or research;
  • Representation from across BC

The Trust offers three separate granting programs annually – Mini Grants, Full Grants and Research Grants

Mini-Grants

Grants of up to $1,500 are available for new or existing activities that promote permanency options for BC’s children an youth. These small grants are intended for the following purposes:

  • Assist in the development of special events, workshops, and conferences
  • Fund bursaries for education purposes, including individual attendance at events, meetings, and conferences
  • Support new or existing local groups and networks related to adoption, culture and race
  • Support organizational systems and training
  • Recognize and celebrate individuals promoting permanency options for BC’s children and youth

Full Grants

Grants of up to $20,000 are available for projects and initiatives that demonstrate strategic collaborations will be considered:

  1. Raising awareness of:
    • the need for permanent placements for children and youth in care, particularly those with special needs, specific cultural considerations and aboriginal children;
    • permanency options for children and youth in care, including adoptions by foster families, kinship placements, custody agreements, open adoption, aboriginal customary arrangements and other alternatives.
  2. Supporting healthy and positive permanent families through:
    • special community, educational and cultural events;
    • development and/or implementation of new models of permanent care
    • parenting and family support;
    • projects aimed at teen transitioning and identity issues related to adoption, kinship arrangements, inter-racial placements etc.;
    • inter cultural adoption support;
    • activities for children and youth with special needs;
    • training and support for groups and/or group leaders.

Research Grants

Research projects may run over a two year time frame with grant funding of up to $10,000 per year.

Applications are accepted for the development of action research involving a partnership between the adoptive and academic communities. Innovative research projects that have practical application and are useful to the adoptive community will be supported. Applications are invited for research of evidence-based best practices, evaluation of innovative approaches, or start up funding for longer-term research that focuses on:

  • increasing the number of children living in permanent families;
  • preventing the disruption of permanent placements involving children in care or;
  • those who were formerly in care.

 

 

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