Helping families develop healthy connection and trust throughout the permanency placement process.
Becoming a new family unit can be challenging. Carya‘s Adoption Kinship Counselling offers therapeutic support to children and their families in various stages of the legal permanency process, including adoption or private guardianship. The therapeutic interventions serve families by aiming to increase emotional health, self-esteem and security within the parent-child relationship. The therapeutic approach is based on child development, attachment, trauma and grief and loss.
What to expect?
Our specially trained counsellors assist families through the entire adoption process and provide ongoing support throughout the child’s development, including:
- During the pre-placement process
- In transitioning the child into the adoptive home
- With on-going support throughout the child’s development
Is Adoption Kinship Counselling for me?
Carya’s Adoption Kinship Counselling supports parents/caregivers and children from newborn to 22 years of age who have been united through the public system.
Is there a cost?
This program is funded by Calgary and Area Child and Family Services and is provided free of charge to kinship parents and adoptive families who are adopting within the public system or who currently qualify for post-adoptive services.
If space is available, families who have adopted internationally or within the private system can access post-adoption services at Carya for fee. The fees are determined on a case-by case basis with parents/caregivers.
How do I access this programming?
To learn more about Adoption Kinship Counselling, contact our intake team at 403-205-5244
Carya gave us a safe place and caring professionals to aid in finding a family balance and healthy ways to deal with conflict.
-Carya Participant
Upcoming Groups for Adoptive, Kinship, and Foster Parents
Circle of Security® Parenting Group
Join us for an eight-week virtual parenting group that will help you identify and respond to your child’s emotional needs.
At times, all parents feel lost about what our child needs from us. Imagine what it would feel like if you could understand what your child was really asking of you. The Circle of Security® Parenting program is based on decades of attachment research about how secure parent-child relationships can be supported and strengthened.
This group will help you:
- Understand your child’s emotional world by learning to read emotional needs.
- Support your child’s ability to successfully manage emotions.
- Enhance the development of your child’s self esteem.
- Honour the innate wisdom and desire of your child to be secure
When: Tuesdays, April 16 – June 4, 2024
Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Location: Online via Zoom
For more information or to register for the Circle of Security® Parenting Group, please contact Nedra Huffey at 403-205-5237 or NedraH@CaryaCalgary.ca or Sharon Gordon at 403-305-3700 or SharonG@CaryaCalgary.ca