Frequently Asked Questions

Interwoven Peer Connectors are here to support parents and caregivers at every stage. Peer Connectors have extensive lived experience in adoption, kinship, customary care, and foster care. Additionally, they receive specialized training in supporting peer relationships and community connections. Many also bring related professional learning in social work, counselling, complex needs, and mental health to their abilities as peer support connectors.

    • Your Interwoven Peer Connector can provide resources about attachment focused and trauma informed parenting.

    • Your Interwoven Peer Connector can provide support to kinship caregivers and their families.

    • Your Interwoven Peer Connector can provide support to customary care caregivers and their families and to culturally appropriate resources, supports and services.

    • Your Interwoven Peer Connector can provide cultural supports and connections for parents who have adopted internationally.

    • Your Interwoven Peer Connector can provide 1:1 support to you as your child/children transition home.

    • Your Interwoven Peer Connector can provide support if you are experiencing Post Adoption Depression or anxiety.

    • Your Interwoven Peer Connector can attend doctor and mental health professionals appointments with you.

    • Your Interwoven Peer Connector can connect you with professional and peer supports to help you navigate the mental health system for your child/children.

    • Your Interwoven Peer Connector can provide peer support if your family is in crisis, helping you connect to the professionals and resources you need.

    • Your Interwoven Peer Connector can assist with finding adoption aware and trauma informed professionals in your community.

    • Your Interwoven Peer Connector can attend school meetings with you.

    • Your Interwoven Peer Connector can provide 1.1 support to you as you navigate your child’s transition to school.

    • Your Interwoven Peer Connector can provide resources about attachment focused and trauma informed classrooms and schools.

    • Your Interwoven Peer Connector can do presentations at school about the impact of early childhood & adoption trauma.

    • Your Interwoven Peer Connector can assist with filling out forms to apply for specialized funding.

    • Your Interwoven Peer Connector can assist with writing letters of advocacy.

    • Your Interwoven Peer Connector connect you with other LGBTQS2S+ parents and caregivers, individually and through online and in-person groups.

    • Your Interwoven Peer Connector can provide information sessions to community organizations about Interwoven Connections.

    • Your Interwoven Peer Connector can connect you with other parents and caregivers who are experiencing similar challenges and successes as your family.