Welcome to Your New Kinark Website

Kinark Child and Family Services is committed to helping, healing and caring for children, youth and families to enable them to live socially and emotionally healthy lives. There are many ways in which Kinark helps children and families in Durham, Northumberland, Peterborough, Simcoe, York and at the Syl Apps Youth Centre in Oakville.

One avenue parents and caregivers turn to for help is on-line.

As technology develops and the accessibility of the Internet across the province widens, the need for Kinark to host an informative and user-friendly website has become increasingly evident.

Thus, last summer the initial planning stages for a redesign of www.kinark.on.ca began with members of Kinark’s communications and information technology teams sitting at a table with a Peterborough-based agency, Brandhealth, with the goal of creating a visually attractive website that was highly functional and informative.

On the way to going live with the new Kinark website, several key and inclusive steps were taken.

The use of bright colours and photographs of children and youth of diverse ages and ethnic backgrounds is consistent with the messages Kinark has been delivering to clients, staff and our community partners.

As well, the content on the site has been refreshed to ensure users are able to find and understand essential information as it pertains to their situation.
Leading up to the official unveiling of the new site, presentations have been made to parent and youth advisory groups in Peterborough, Durham and at Syl Apps in order to gage the success of this project and encourage feedback.

The feedback from all groups has been overwhelmingly positive. Some of the suggestions and recommendations received at these presentations have been incorporated into the new site to ensure it is complete and relevant to a broad spectrum of users.

Moving forward, the website will continue to grow and transform in order to meet the needs of the users. Please navigate through our new website and forward any comments to info@kinark.on.ca.

Enjoy.