child welfare system

This training draws on current research and lived experience to highlight the invisible nature of these losses and their impact on identity, family systems, and emotional well-being.

Key elements include:

The STAIR model is a skills-focused approach designed to develop and strengthen emotion regulation, interpersonal skills while promoting resiliency. Participants will address how “loss” shows up in trauma survivors, and it will enhance skill building resources to provide “safety” for clients. With a Critical Race Theory lens, participants will further examine how prejudice and complex injustice further perpetuates trauma in the media, law, and access to resources of care and healing.

Join us in a conversation about Ontario’s Child Welfare Redesign Strategy released in July 2020. This conversation will feature a presentation by David Remington, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of Children, Community & Social Services.

In the early 1980's here in Ontario child welfare legislation was developed to address the genocidal systemic racist activities of Children's Aid Societies, "the sixties scoop," and earlier legacy of  Residential Schools on First Nations People.  Customary Care was the core component of the Child and Family Services Act to address this and has been amended over the decades since.   These efforts to address the system level perpetuation of our everyday racism and destruction of Indigenous Peoples have not ultimately addressed the core structures

You're invited to the virtual forum on supporting pregnant/parenting people who use drugs when child welfare involvement and the COVID-19 pandemic collide on Friday, August 14, 2020, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.