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Turning generosity into lasting change for children and youth connected to care.
The Teddy Bear Fund is Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada’s cornerstone fund, helping meet urgent needs today while investing in stronger futures for children, youth, and families connected to the child welfare system.
Because being there can change everything.
It powers work across:
& Well-Being
Lifelong Connections
Why It Matters
Too many children and youth connected to the child welfare system experience instability, trauma, disconnection, and unmet needs — while continuing to face disproportionately high barriers to education, mental health support, housing stability, and employment.
The Teddy Bear Fund helps ensure support is there when it matters most, from urgent essentials and mental health support to education, mentorship, and long-term opportunities that help young people thrive.
Timely when urgent needs arise. Dependable through life’s hardest moments. Dynamic enough to evolve as needs change.
With a primary focus on funding initiatives that strengthen families and prevent children from growing up in government care, the Teddy Bear Fund supports multiple programs and services impacting all three of our priority populations: children and families at risk, children and youth in care and youth in transition.
