May 2019

All This Family Is What I Need Every year, I bring my family through adoption to ACO’s FunWalk fundraiser. I spend a lot of time with my family through adoption. Earlier this week, I came down...

Adoption Works Ask people touched by adoption to tell you what adoption means to them and you will get many deeply affecting and uniquely personal answers. Which is as it should be for...

We should ALL care that over 5000 young people in this province under the age of 18 living in permanent foster care (through no fault of their own) and that at least 1000 turn 18 each year and are...

Over 30,000 children and youth in the Canadian foster care system are currently seeking forever families and, unfortunately, many age out of care. However, partnerships between organizations such...

For some, support in the world of adoption and permanency planning can be difficult to find, but the Adoption Council of Ontario's Permanency and Adoption Support Services (PASS) team is striving...

FunWalk is a crucial fundraising event for ACO that brings communities together with the vision that every child in foster care is adopted into a forever home. It's also a fun, family-friendly...

We know that fundraising is difficult, but we also know that you care about doing your part to work towards a community where all children have a family forever. So we wanted to help you out! We...

International Youth Day (IYD) is observed annually on August 12. It is meant as an opportunity for governments and others to draw attention to youth issues worldwide.  Brad (right), ACO Youth...

Written by: Brad Gibbons, Youth Liaison with Living Experience in Adoption Self-care is an ongoing practice for adoptees. Unfortunately, not all of us are aware of our self-care. We often look to...

Written by Wendy Hayes, Communications Coordinator for International Self-Care Day.@_wendyhayes Personally, self-care has been a journey of healing trauma and managing my anxiety. When people used...