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Permanency & Adoption Competency Training

Permanency & Adoption Competency Training

Understanding and healing family-based trauma and loss: Facilitating and supporting permanence for children and families through adoption, kinship and customary care

The Permanency and Adoption Competency Training (PACT) Program was launched by the ACO in 2015 to provide specialized training to Ontario's adoptive and kinship families and the professionals who work with them. 

For Parents & Families

For Professionals

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© ACT: An Adoption and Permanency Curriculum for Child Welfare and Mental Health Professionals and Pathways to Permanence 2: Parenting Children who have Experienced Trauma and Loss are copyrights of Kinship Center, a member of Seneca Family of Agencies in California. Through a partnership with Seneca Family of Agencies, Adoption Council of Ontario owns the exclusive Ontario license to ACT and Pathways 2.
The Adoption Council of Ontario

The Adoption Council of Ontario is a not-for-profit providing outreach, support and education to all adoptees, adoptive parents, potential adoptive parents, birth families, and adoption professionals in Ontario. We deal with public adoption, private adoption, international adoption and relative adoption. Since 1987, we have been working towards a provincial community where all children have families forever.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation.  The Ontario Trillium Foundation is an agency of the government of Ontario.

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