The Children's Aid Society now has a fund to help keep children with family members.
A $25,000 donation from John and Sophia Chisholm will create the Embracing Families Fund. The fund was created because the Children's Aid Society identified that families often do not get the same financial support as foster families.
"If families have kin that they want to take in instead of going to strangers and they want to foster their own relatives then money should not become an issue," said John Chisholm.
Executive Director Derrick Drouillard says they try to keep children with family as much as possible.
"If we can keep kids with their family and support that family in raising them then that's always better outcomes for the children," said Drouillard.
Drouillard says the donation from the Chisholms is just the start. He is hoping the community embraces this fund so that it can grow and continue to help children and families in Windsor-Essex.