Website: www.momsonamission.ca Email: mw@momsonamission.ca Phone: 416-792-4145 Fees: $60/hr OHIP/insurance: No Services provided: Parenting program around “hidden disabilities” from ADHD to attachment issues, Coach parents adoptive parents in person and by phone Services provided to: Adoptive families (parents)
Website:www.familiesfromsa.com Email: info@familiesfromsa.com Phone: 416-947-1881 Services provided: Network for families waiting to adopt or have adopted from South Africa, network provides support and mentorship Services provided to: Adopted children/ parents
201 Harbord St, Toront201 Harbord St, Toronto Website:www.parentbooks.ca Email: info@parentbooks.ca Phone: 416-537-8334 Services provided: A specialty bookstore that carries material in all areas of adoption and foster care and treatment Services provided to: Adopted children, youth, families, birth families, adult adoptees, help in search and reunion, foster children and foster youth
1395 Bayview Ave, Toronto Website:www.leasidetherapycentre.com Email: akussin@bellnet.ca Phone: 416-440-2551 Fee: $135/hr session/ $500/10 week support group / OHIP/Insurance: inquire Services provided: Attachment assessment and treatment including therapy, counselling and support groups Services provided to: Adopted children, adopted youth, adoptive families, birth families, adult adoptees, foster children and foster youth
FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN FROM CHINA- TORONTO CHAPTER (FCC)
P.O. Box 808, Station F, Toronto, ON M4Y 2N7 Website:www.fcctoronto.org Email: info@fcctoronto.org Fee: $25/yr membership fee Services provided: Support group for families have or are considering adoption from China,
Chinese cultural activities Services provided to: Adopted children, adopted youth and adoptive families
38 Isabella Street. 8th Floor- Toronto Website:www.torontocas.ca Email: jtjandra@torontoCAS.ca Phone: 416-924-4640 x3586 Fee: none Services Provided: Support group for any stage of reunion process, Meets last Tuesday of every month Services Provided to: Birth families, adult adoptees, help in search and reunion
3101 Bloor St. W. Suite 305, Toronto Website:www.russults.com Email: margaret@russults.com Phone: 416-230-4721 Fees: $130/hr OHIP/Insurance: inquire Services Provided: Infertility and adoption counselling Services Provided to: Adoptive families and birth families
St.George and Bloor St. Email: nataliesammut@rogers.com Phone: 416 823-1267 Fees: negotiable OHIP/Insurance: No/inquire
Service Area: Toronto Services provided: Children and Youth experiencing behaviour problems. Adults and children experiencing trauma and working with children and youths whose parents have separated. Services provided to: Adoptive families/adult adoptees/foster children and youth
425 Eglinton Avenue West Email: nancy.cohen@utoronto.ca Phone: 416 967-4530 Fees: 150/hr OHIP /Insurance: please inquire Services provided: Children and Youth with attachment problems, and learning disabilities Services provided to: Adopted families, adopted children and youth
747 Warden Avenue Website:www.youthlink.ca Phone: 416 967-1722 ext 222 Fees: None Service Area: Toronto East (scarborough) Services provided: Provides family and individual counselling to youth 12-21. Services provided to: Adopted youth and their families, foster youth
Website:http://www.motherisk.org/women/index.jsp Numbers to Call: Motherisk Info line: 416-813-6780
Motherisk NVP Helpline- can help with morning sickness: 1-800-436-8477
Motherisk Alcohol and Substance use helpline: 1-877-327-4636
General Questions: 416-813-6780
St. Michael’s Hospital, 61 Queen St E, Toronto ON Website:www.stmichaelshospital.com Phone: 416- 867-3655 Fees: Covered by OHIP Services Provided: Post adoption clinic to assess for conditions common in adopted children Services Provided to: adopted children and adopted youth
60 Richardson Dr. Aurora, ON L4G 1Z3 Phone: 905-726-8984 Email: smeyles@sympatico.ca Fees: $85/hr OHIP/Insurance: No Services Provided: counselling through play therapy methods Services Provided to: adopted children, adopted youth, adoptive families, birth families, foster children and foster youth
Website:www.annettebradshaw.com Email: annette@annettebradshaw.com Phone: 416-466-1417 Fees: inquire OHIP/Insurance: free consultation Services Provided: psychotherapy/counselling for adult adoptees, support in search and reunion and counselling for adoptive families, foster families and birth families Service Provided to: adoptive families, birth families, adult adoptees and help in search and reunion
Website:www.clc-apathtohealing.ca Email: christine.lachaine@clc-apathtohealing.ca Phone: (306) 352-4069 Fees: sliding scale- inquire Services provided: holistic mind-body eclectic approach to counselling; pre/post adoption reunion, as well as face to face and telephonic counselling/services Services provided to: Adopted children, youth, families, birth families, adult adoptees, help in search and reunion, foster children and foster youth
Services Provided: CCSA has launched the Canadian FASD Training Online Database which provides frontline workers, health and allied professionals easy access to trainers and training programs to assist them in addressing FASD with individuals, families and caregivers. Please visit http://www.ccsa.ca to explore and use the new database.
715-33 Empress Avenue, North York Email: koreanadoptee.canada@gmail.com Fees: None Services provided: resource and social network for adult adoptees, 18 years and older, primarily from korea. Services provided to: Adult adoptees
1812-655 Broadview Ave, M4K 2P3 Website: www.askaboutreunion.org Email:askto@rogers.com Phone: 416 545-0912 Fees: $35/year Services provided: ASK is a peer support group for all those who are seperated by adoption. Services provided to: Birth families and adult adoptees
Box 1493, North Bay ON, P1B 8K6 Website: www.ndds.ca Email: ndds@xplornet.com Phone: 705 752-5081 Fees: Free to Ontario Residents on Website Services provided: The NDDS explores a childs skills in the following areas: hearing, vision, speech, language, communication, gross and fine motor skills,cognitive,social/emotional and self-help. Available in various languages Services provided to: adopted children, birth families and foster children
Website:http://www.adoptioncrossroads.org/chat.html Email: joesoll@adoptioncrossroads.com Message Board:http://www.adoptioncrossroads.net/board/phpBB3/ Fees: None Services Provided: An on-line chat room every eveningafter 11:10pm Eastern.Pick a screen name and please email for a password. Adoption connection is needed to be approved. Note: In chat we do not use the words bio, biological or birth.*Women who lost babies to adoption are referred to as "moms", "1stmoms", or natural moms."*Please respect the above guidelines. Please click here to read theentire code of conduct. http://groups.msn.com/Adoptese/codeofconduct.msnw Services Provided to: adoptees, their relatives and natural parents and their relatives
Phone:(416) 440-2551 Fax: 416-440-4019 This group will meet every Tuesday from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. at the Leaside Therapy Centre, 1395 Bayview Avenue. Each 10-week cycle is a closed group. Groups run from September to December, January to March and April to June. Cost per participant is $50.00 per 2-hour session. Payment of the total fee of $500.00 for the 10-week group will be required to ensure a spot in the group. Each parent of a two-parent family must pay the $600.00 fee. There will be a limit of 10 members per group. Spaces are limited so we recommend early application. Inquire for application form.
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