Events Calendar

The Importance of Permanency for our Children & Youth with Sylvia Gibbons & Aviva Zukerman Schure Recommended audience: all audiences welcome Goals: During this 90-minute webinar, we will explore the critical importance of lasting permanency to our children and youth. This webinar begins by providing an understanding…

Tasks to be Mastered to Facilitate Healing from a History of Grief, Loss and Trauma Part 1 with Judy Archer, MSW, RSW Recommended Audience: Prospective caregivers, adoptive parents, foster parents & professionals. Upon placement, children face two daunting emotional issues: forming an attachment…

Search and Reunion with with Dianne Mathes R.S.W. Adult Adoptee, Therapist, ED Adoption Council of Ontario. Recommended Audience: Adult adoptees, first/birth families, adoptive families and the professionals who support them. Goal: During this one hour webinar, Dianne explores the search and reunion…

ACEs & Developmental Trauma Part 1: The Science & Why it Matters with Kathy Soden & Sylvia Gibbons, Adoption Council of Ontario PACT Team & DTAA Members Recommended audience: pre-adoptive families, adoptive, kinship and customary care families, adult adoptees and the professionals who support those…

ACEs & Developmental Trauma Part 2: Healing Through Adoption & Permanency Journeys with Kathy Soden & Sylvia Gibbons, Adoption Council of Ontario PACT Team & DTAA Members and Dianne Mathes, Executive Director of the Adoption Council of Ontario Recommended audience: pre-adoptive families, adoptive, kinship and customary…

Recommended Audience: Prospective and adoptive families and the professionals who work with them New FASD with Judy Archer, MSW, RSW *This is an introductory session for people who are just learning about FASD. Our new webinar on prenatal exposure to alcohol…

Adoption & The Adult Adoptee with Dianne Mathes R.S.W. Adult Adoptee, Therapist, ED Adoption Council of Ontario Recommended Audience:Adoptees, parents, partners and the community who wants to connect with and support. Goals: During this 2-hour webinar, Dianne explores the lifelong journey of the…