Kinship, Customary Care, and adoptive parent or caregiver who has welcomed children/youth to their family through adoption., kinship or customary care.

Support For Parents and Caregivers

Kinship, Customary Care, and adoptive families face unique challenges on their lifelong journey. Our Parent2Parent Support Network encourages parents and caregivers to connect with, learn from, and support one another. Once you are registered, you will be connected with your local Regional Parent Liaison to complete your intake.

What is a Regional Parent Liaison?

A Regional Parent Liaison (RPL) is a person employed by Adopt4Life, who brings lived experience with permanency in families and communities. After you fill out the form below, you will be connected with a Regional Parent Liaison in your area. RPL’s are your go-to for one-to-one support for….

  • Advice on local resources

  • One-on-one support for urgent situations

  • Information about joining our special-focus online support groups

  • Details of our virtual and in-person meet-ups

  • Advocacy (at meetings with school administrators, the Children’s Aid Society, or medical professionals)

  • Buddy and mentor matching

Benefits of joining the Parent2Parent Support Network:

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Joining our community is free and enables community parents and caregivers to connect through our confidential Parent2Parent support network. We offer in-person support, advocacy, buddy and mentor matching, online social communities and support groups, and interactive webinars with adoption, kin and customary care experts and families.

By joining the Adopt4Life community, you are consenting to receive communications from Adopt4Life, including our monthly newsletter which contains information and resources for adoptive families, organizational updates, awareness campaign initiatives, information about social events, and adoption-related opportunities. If you wish to opt out, please contact us at info@adopt4life.com; you may also unsubscribe at any time via the links provided in each communication. Additionally, your email and contact information will be used by our Parent Liaisons to contact you directly to introduce all of the benefits of Parent2Parent Support. We will send you an initial email to introduce our supports. Please ensure that you check your spam folder and make us an email contact so you don't miss out on communications from us. 

What happens after I sign up?

After signing up you will receive a welcome email and some follow-up emails that will tell you a bit more about what is available to you as someone who is part of our network. You will also receive an email from our Intake Coordinator who will connect you with your local Regional Parent Liaison.

 

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Resources Library

Resource Library
Stronger Together Podcast—Ep 07: Building your community with Tess
Stronger Together Podcast—Ep 07: Building your community with Tess

Today, we have the privilege of hearing from Nina, who will be sharing her personal story of how she found her voice as an adoptee and the obstacles she faced along the way. Join us as we embark on this insightful and important discussion.

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Stronger Together Podcast—Ep 08: Season 1 Wrap Up
Stronger Together Podcast—Ep 08: Season 1 Wrap Up

We've hit our 8th episode and it's time to wrap up the season! Kathryn shares the learnings of our past conversations and touches on the future of the podcast.

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Stronger Together Podcast—Ep 06: Finding your voice with Nina
Stronger Together Podcast—Ep 06: Finding your voice with Nina

Today, we have the privilege of hearing from Nina, who will be sharing her personal story of how she found her voice as an adoptee and the obstacles she faced along the way. Join us as we embark on this insightful and important discussion.

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Stronger Together Podcast—Ep 05: Maintaining your mental health with Cindy
Stronger Together Podcast—Ep 05: Maintaining your mental health with Cindy

In today’s episode, we hear from a parent and her journey into finding mental health after adopting a sibling group of five and how a seemingly small act of self-care, can in turn be a giant step towards balance and purpose.

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Stronger Together Podcast—Ep 04: Complex needs adoption with John
Stronger Together Podcast—Ep 04: Complex needs adoption with John

Today we will be hearing from John, and his journey with adopting and parenting children with significant disabilities and mental health needs. Listen in as he shares his experiences, life lessons and insight into his day to day life.

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Stronger Together Podcast—Ep 01: Behind the scenes with Chantal and Van
Stronger Together Podcast—Ep 01: Behind the scenes with Chantal and Van

We are so very excited for the official launch of the Stronger Together Podcast! For our first official episode, we wanted to do something a little different, and give you all a little glimpse of behind the scenes. So much of what we do in here in the marketing and communications department happens out of the public view, and we thought what a better way to launch this new program, than to share a little more about who we are - to share our own stories not only to help give you insight into our own lives and connection to the adoption, kinship and customary care communities, but also share our vested interest and intent behind the content that we createToday we will be hearing from Tania and diving deep into the importance of creating meaningful, tangible cultural learning experiences for white families and their non-white children in pursuit of developing a healthy sense self-identity that is crucial to one personal growth.

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Stronger Together Podcast—Ep 02: A Healthy Sense of Self Identity with Tania
Stronger Together Podcast—Ep 02: A Healthy Sense of Self Identity with Tania

Today we will be hearing from Tania and diving deep into the importance of creating meaningful, tangible cultural learning experiences for white families and their non-white children in pursuit of developing a healthy sense self-identity that is crucial to one personal growth.

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Stronger Together Podcast—Ep 03: Supports for aggression at home with Jenn
Stronger Together Podcast—Ep 03: Supports for aggression at home with Jenn

Today we will be hearing from Jenn who will be sharing her experiences with AFCCA. For those of you who may not be aware of this term AFCCA refers to Aggression towards Family/Caregivers in Childhood and Adolescence. This is a very difficult subject to speak about and so often parents and caregivers share they feel shame, stigma and isolation when they do seek out help.

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Hands, not Hurdles: Helping Children with FASD and their Families
Hands, not Hurdles: Helping Children with FASD and their Families

This pdf published by B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth provides service providers with key messages about supporting people with FASD and their families, including helpful graphic messages. Myles Himmelreich, a powerful advocate/mentor who himself has FASD provided advisory support in its creation.

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The KIT: Keeping it Together
The KIT: Keeping it Together

The KIT: Keeping it Together is an organizational tool for parents caring for children with disabilities, developed by CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research, and the Hamilton Family Network . It is a way to organize information for your child, and to assist you when interacting with different service systems, for example health, education, and recreation. Included is a User's Guide that will help you through the initial process of how to use the KIT. It is useful for parents of children with a wide variety of special needs and all developmental ages from birth to 21 years.

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First Nations Child & Family Caring Society - Spirit Bear
First Nations Child & Family Caring Society - Spirit Bear

Welcome to Spirit Bear's website! On this site, you will find information about Spirit Bear's children's books, his calendar, the Spirit Bear Plan to end inequities in public services for First Nations children, youth and families, and much more. Thank you beary much for visiting!

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How To Talk To Kids About The National Day For Truth And Reconciliation
How To Talk To Kids About The National Day For Truth And Reconciliation

Canada is approaching its first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, during a year full of sobering revelations about the horrors of the Indian Residential School System.

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National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

The NCTR was created as part of the mandate of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). The TRC was charged to listen to Survivors, their families, communities and others affected by the residential school system and educate Canadians about their experiences. The resulting collection of statements, documents and other materials now forms the sacred heart of the NCTR.

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Sibling Sexual Abuse #Siblingstoo
Sibling Sexual Abuse #Siblingstoo

The #SiblingsToo project encourages people to anonymously share their story. The honesty of the abused person, the abusive person or other family members will speak volumes to the rest of society by helping researchers and experts understand more.

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Radius Child and Youth Services
Radius Child and Youth Services

The #SiblingsToo project encourages people to anonymously share their story. The honesty of the abused person, the abusive person or other family members will speak volumes to the rest of society by helping researchers and experts understand more.

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