Erin is a proud mother of one, who joined the family through public adoption when he was 7 years old. She met her little boy while working as an educational assistant, and shortly after she and her wife began taking steps for a child specific adoption. Erin has worked in a variety of positions, including education, mental health, and autism specific programs. She graduated from the Child and Youth Worker program over 10 years ago and has always had a passion for supporting vulnerable children and youth. After becoming a parent, Erin realized that it is not just children and youth who need compassion, love, and support... it is parents too! Especially families impacted by child welfare, foster care, adoption, guardianship, and customary care. Erin has both professional and lived experience with trauma informed care, therapeutic parenting, ADHD, intellectual disabilities, childhood apraxia of speech, AAC, navigating the school system, and the LGBT2SQIA+ community. She is passionate about supporting children, youth, and families during all of the wonderful, messy, and complicated stages of their lives!