January 2020

This Giving Tuesday, we’re celebrating families formed through adoption. We’re also acknowledging that families need support along the way. After Daniel and the Johnson’s were connected...

This Giving Tuesday, we want to introduce you to Daniel. A young boy in the foster care system who has special needs and a family that can give him permanency, a family forever. Daniel and his...

This Giving Tuesday, we want to introduce you to the Johnson’s. A family who were looking to grow their family though adoption. Located in Northern Ontario, the Johnson’s are a married could...

Betty has struggled with mental health challenges, early traumatic life experiences and addiction since she was a teenager. When her addiction and mental health challenges made it difficult for her...

Travis is a birth father who is 5 years into adoption reunion with his daughter Malaika. I became a father in 1983 just after my 19th birthday. A daughter.   A daughter I was told that I would...

Written by Dianne Mathes R.S.W. Executive Director, ACO Over the past month we have heard the voices of families who are living in adoption and permanency journeys with their children.   We...

On November 12th, 2019 Amanda and Mike Robinson got an early Christmas gift, one they had been waiting years for—a daughter, who happened to be 27 years old.  In September of 2018, Melissa...

Written by Sherri Kinch I was taken from my mother at birth, placed with a foster family for three months before I was adopted by my parents. I don’t remember being told that I was adopted, I...

Written by ACO's Kathy Soden, Sylvia Gibbons, and Dianne Mathes Earlier this week, we explored Pathways, our specialized training program for adoptive, kinship and customary care families and the...

Written by ACO's Kathy Soden & Sylvia Gibbons, adoptive parents   We adopted from Ontario's public system many years ago with excitement, lots of love and high hopes, but in retrospect, not much...