Nairn Family Homes

About Nairn Family Homes

Nairn Family Homes is a private foster care agency and licensed residential treatment program located on North Routledge Park in the Hyde Park neighbourhood. The organization serves children and adolescents between the ages of 0 and 18 across Ontario, providing treatment foster care for youth with various needs. The agency offers services to promote healthy foster families and successful placements, including matching children with families, foster family training, and a relief program for respite. Training focuses on attachment-focused impact parenting, which emphasizes emotional relationships and a parent's awareness of their own emotions. The agency provides 24/7 on-call assistance and assigns each family a dedicated supervisor with a small caseload for advocacy and assistance. Ed and Agnes Driediger founded the organization in 1970 as one of the first private foster care agencies in Ontario. Ownership transitioned to Mike Chalmers and Phillip A. Bruce in 1987, and Phillip and Alice Bruce assumed full ownership in 1996. The organization is professionally affiliated with the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services of Ontario.