Newly Placed Pathways – Winter 2024

Pathways to Permanence is a multi-sessional psycho-educational program

Eligibility:

Due to our current funding guidelines, outlined by the Ministry, participants must be an adoptive parent (including parents pre adoption finalization) or a foster-to-adopt parent, and must have adopted (or be fostering-to-adopt) through a children’s aid society, to attend our free Pathways program.

Please note – we are working to make Pathways available to all permanency parents (Customary Care, Kinship, Legal Guardian, International Adoptions, Private Adoptions), and hope to be able to offer them soon.  If you would like to be kept in the loop on when these new offerings become available, please be sure to sign-up for our newsletter.

Location: Online via Zoom (The Zoom link will be emailed to registrants closer to the event date; please see below for technical requirements).

Time: Thursday Evenings; 6:30pm to 9:30pm

Dates: 

• Session 1: January 25
• Session 2: February 1
• Session 3: February 8
• Session 4: February 15
• Session 5: February 22
• Session 6: February 29
• Session 7: March 7
• Session 8: March 21
• Session 9 (Decoding): April 11

Additional Details

Who: This training is for parents and caregivers where a placement has already occurred.

Cost: This course is being offered at NO cost to participants thanks to funding from the Ontario Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services.

Technical & set-up requirement: 

• Laptop or desktop computer with functioning webcam and microphone capabilities.
• Strong/stable internet connection with a speed of at least 10mbps
  
• In order to preserve families’ privacy and comfort levels, anyone other than another Pathways participant, should not be in the same room with you while participating in a Pathways Zoom session; this includes children and teens.

Trainer(s):

Darby Crosby
Darby is an adoptive parent, a Registered Psychotherapist and on the Registry of Marriage and Family Therapists. She has a private practice and works part time at Family Services York Region. She has provided counselling to individuals, couples and families who are dealing with various issues such as parenting, adoption, trauma, grief, anxiety, depression and domestic violence for over 20 years. Her experience includes working with all members of the adoption constellation. Darby has been a PRIDE trainer since 2007.

Jennifer Phair
Jennifer Phair graduated from the University of Western Ontario, with an Honours Bachelor of Social Work Degree in 1993.  Since that time, Jennifer has dedicated her career to the child welfare sector, and improving the lives of children, youth and families.  She is currently an Adoption Supervisor at Durham Children’s Aid Society.   With over 29 years of extensive child welfare experience as a front-line worker and service supervisor, she brings a breadth of knowledge of the child welfare system, from intake, to supporting families in an ongoing capacity, to child and youth services and 9 years of direct experience in adoption, both as a practitioner and supervisor.  Jennifer has attended the Adoption Competency Training and has a strong commitment to permanency and adoption journeys.

Certificate: A certificate of completion is available after the offering is complete.

To see other Pathways offerings in Ontario, click here to go to our events page.

Can’t attend any of these offerings? Click here to be notified about the next round.

Detailed Information about Pathways

Click here for detailed information on Pathways.

© 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.