Crisis In Child Protective Services (Karen Stecher)

Crisis in Child Protective Services (Karen Stecher)

Kevin Rogers

Karen Stecher spent 40 years with Windsor Essex Children’s Aid Society. After retirement she has become an advocate and facilitator with Safe Families Canada, helping the church to engage with families prior to the need for child protective services. Government funded systems are inadequate to provide the needs of minors in crisis. Karen will help us understand how we can live a world where children are safe and families are together.

This session was recorded at Our City Windsor 2026.

Link:

Safe Families Canada

https://safefamiliescanada.com/

Gospel Transformation In An At Risk Neighbourhood

Gospel Transformation In An At Risk Neighbourhood

Kevin Rogers

For 10 years, New Song Church has been alongside one of Windsor’s more challenging neighbourhoods of social housing. What we affectionately call the Glengarry neighbourhood is a series of four high rise apartments, several rows of townhouses and an assisted living facility. It experiences the most tragic of life experiences as well as a quieter majority that are just trying to survive.

Through collaboration initially with The Downtown Windsor Community Collaborative and partnership with Windsor Essex Community Housing Corporation, we run a 4 day per week drop in centre, a community garden, the cafeteria contract in the assisted living facility along with a weekly Bible study and prayer meeting for residents with spiritual desire.

In this episode, Kevin Rogers interviews Kevin and Paula Saunders as well as Elizabeth Anderson.