Resource Videos and Webinars
Join us for an in-depth discussion featuring Tanya Eichler, AFCCA Clinical Lead, and Heather Hodgins-Chan, Occupational Therapist, as they delve into the critical role of Occupational Therapy in supporting healthy development and addressing the impacts of Early Childhood Trauma
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Du trauma à la résilience
Presentée par Dr. Delphine Collin-Vézina
Non Violent Resistance: Supporting Families Who Experience AFCCA
In this one-hour session, Mary-Jo Land, Chair of Adopt4Life’s Mental Health Committee, will interview two international leaders in Non Violent Resistance, Dan Dulberger and Peter Jakob. They will provide listeners with an overview of the principles of NVR and why it is so successful as an approach to Aggression toward Family/Caregivers in Childhood & Adolescence (AFCCA).
Adopt4Life Presents: Single Parent Adoption
Topics covered will include self-care, building a support network, and expanding your family as a single parent.
Adopt4Life Presents: FASD Webinar
In partnership with the Fetal Alcohol Resource Program (FARP), Adopt4Life is excited to present an intro to FASD, Supports and Parenting Strategies. Our speakers for this webinar are Kathryn Connors, Adopt4Life's Openness Specialist and Maude Champagne of Citizen Ottawa for FARP.
6 Things Older Youth Should Know About Being Adopted
We are seven young people who’ve all lived in foster or group homes and had to make the type of big decisions you’re making right now. We created a video and this guide, because we wanted to help older kids and youth get a real sense of what it’s like as you’re figuring out what’s next.
Adopt4Life Presents: Openness with Mary-Jo Land
Please join Registered Psychotherapist Mary-Jo Land and Provincial Parents Liaisons Joy and Kathryn during this live interactive webinar that discusses the complexities of Openness in adoption including: what openness means and what it can look like, managing your own feelings as an adoptive parent, Openness and Social Media, safety, the benefits of openness and more.
Adopt4Life Presents: Attachment, with Mary-Jo Land, Part 1
Mary Jo Land is a psychotherapist working with children and families who have experienced trauma, loss, and attachment disruption. Her insights are featured in a video series, “When We Are Very Young”.
Adopt4Life and Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption Program Presents: Older Child Adoption
We invite you to join us as we explore older child adoption in partnership with the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids, Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption program. You will learn from Darcy Thachuk, a Wendy’s Wonderful Kids Recruiter, and Kathryn Connors, an Adopt4Life Team Lead and Openness Specialist, about support options available and hear from a parent and her daughter, who was adopted at an older age. Topics will include transitioning, openness, ongoing support needs and related services available.
Adopt4Life Presents: Identity and Transracial Adoption with Judith Craig Morency, RSW
Judith Craig Morency is a transracial, transnational, foundling adoptee from Haiti, adopted into a white Canadian family in the early 1980’s. Despite growing up in a loving family Judith always desired to know more about her roots and wanted to find her birth family. She returned to Haiti in 2007 and embarked on this incredible life-changing journey. She documented this experience in the film, "Adopted ID". Please join us as we explore transracial adoption and identities for adoptees.
Le trauma de filiation
Une présentation et discussion au sujet du trauma de filiation, du trauma secondaire, ainsi que les comportements de l’enfant et les impacts de ceux-ci sur les parents qui les adoptent.
Présentatrice: Karine Tremblay