Until the Last Child

Our Mission

Until The Last Child (UTLC) exists to help to complete Canadian families.

We exist so that every child in Canada who needs a healthy, permanent home with a nurturing family gets one at the earliest opportunity.

There are over 30,000 children awaiting permanent homes across our country—yet as few as five percent of them find one each year. A 2013 Ipsos Reid survey found fewer than eight percent of Canadians ranked “children at risk or in foster care” as their most important charitable cause.

These children deserve better – we aim to change that.

Our vision: 30,000 homes by 2020.

About Until the Last Child

UTLC works alongside child welfare entities, encouraging and supporting innovation. We provide funding and other necessary resources to enable enhanced, stable outcomes for children in care— outcomes that cannot be achieved with public-sector resources alone. In many cases, child welfare agencies already have the creativity and best practice models they need, but lack the funding to implement.

We help child welfare entities maximize their effectiveness.

UTLC is supported in this mission by corporate and individual donors, a premier panel of business process experts, and some of North America’s most respected experts in child welfare.

With concerted effort, we are confident Canadian families will open their hearts and their homes- Until The Last Child is home.