April 2021

Over the winter, ACO piloted a Pathways training specifically for Kinship caregivers in the Simcoe County area.  We often have kin family members in our Pathways trainings. Based on feedback, we...

On May 14th we come together to celebrate Children and Youth in Care Day. It is a day that highlights the children and young adults that are currently in the foster care system and have been in...

I had heard the advice around self-care,” you need to take care of yourself first or you wouldn’t be any good to the kids”. I had also heard the analogy of putting your air mask on...

This month we shine a spotlight on the Peer Support Enhancement Training Day for support group leaders that took place on Saturday March 30, 2019. We were delighted that 20 parent support group...

Developmental Trauma Action Alliance Spring 2019 Welcome to the very first edition of the DTAA's newsletter - DTAA Connections & Community. Through our work and our newsletter, we hope to...

Growing up in foster care I saw a different side to life. Almost as if I was on the outside looking in, I saw friends families behave in all sorts of ways, this helped me form my beliefs on what...

Today is Bell Let's Talk Day. Bell Let’s Talk is a multi-year charitable program dedicated to mental health. Today, Kathy Soden, a parent through adoption, gives her thoughts on the fallout of...

  Wishing you a very Happy New Year and sending you a huge thank-you for your kindness and support in 2018. With your help we made a difference to a lot of families. 133 of children found a...

When we adopted our first child we did not know what to expect.  We knew that he had challenges – challenges that we were ready to face together as a family, but we did not know that we were not...

When we found out we could not have children by birth I was devastated but adoption seemed like a great second choice.  A Google-search of adoption brought us to the Adoption Council of Ontario...