Board of Directors
Board Members – 2025-2026 Term:
Rhonda Morley, Board Chair
Kernesha Baird, Vice Chair
Ellie Loveys, Chair of Finance/Audit/Risk
Councillor, Leslie Maracle, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation
Theresa Vidal
Krupesh Shah
Laurie Giancola
Ellie Loveys
Councillor, Dean Hill, Six Nations of the Grand River
Tobi Adedayo
Board of Directors Eligibility and Responsibility
Board members are community members, aged 18 and over, who live or work in the City of Brantford, the counties of Brant including the lands set aside as reserve lands for Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Haldimand or Norfolk, who are interested in the welfare of our children, and support the Child and Family Services of Grand Erie Mission, Vision and Values. The Board, in conjunction with the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services, determines policy. The Board selects its Local Director, initiates and/or approves programs and services, is responsible for the use of funds, both statutory and private, and exercises the power and authority vested in it by the Child Youth and Family Services Act (2017) and in accordance with the Ontario Not for Profit Corporations Act (2021).
Vacant Positions
Child and Family Services of Grand Erie is committed to a Board composition that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We strongly encourage applications from individuals with lived experience, including those from African Canadian, Indigenous, and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. CFSGE also strives for representation across a range of ages, genders, and personal experiences to strengthen inclusive and effective governance.
If you are interested in becoming a Board Member or a Community Member on a Board Committee, please complete the application form below or email sarah.bomberry@cfsge.ca
Application Form:
Quote from a 1970 OACAS Board Member Handbook – which we believe is still relevant today.
“Why Have a Board of Directors:
Social service in Ontario began with private organizations, such as churches and neighborhood agencies, the latter with their own board of directors. The protection of children was one of the first social services offered by a private agency – in 1891 by the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto. Now that this work is mandated under law and almost totally funded by governments, what is the rationale for continuing the tradition of the private board? Dr. Raymond Price, a Canadian research psychiatrist, recently gave this answer:
“If social work is to recapture its historical role as the conscience of the community, it must maintain an independent perspective and unrestrained voice. Civil servants are traditionally and perhaps understandably enjoined to keep public silence about issues relevant to government, while government agencies tend to suffer a kind of selective inattention with regard to facts and situations unpopular to the Establishment. Social workers who operate independently of government…can help to ensure that such selective inattention does not prevail. In my view, the concerned and active local agency can and should force confrontations with such government inattention.”
The freedom to press governments for needed social remedies is safeguarded by the privately incorporated Society with its own Board of Directors.”