Adoption and Permanency Planning

Challenges and success stories around finding forever homes for youth who often wait the longest.

How adoption is portrayed in media—what gets it right, what harms, and what stories still need telling.

Discussions on cultural continuity, self-determination, and Indigenous frameworks for keeping children connected to their communities.

Honest conversations about contact agreements, family dynamics, grief, and healing across all sides.

Explore and compare adoption, kinship care, guardianship, customary care, and reunification—what they mean, and who they serve best.

Where to find help after placement—counselling, cultural support, respite, education, and peer networks.

Talk advocacy, policy change, and how to streamline the system while keeping kids’ safety front and center.

A step-by-step space for prospective adoptive parents to ask questions, share timelines, and support one another.

Stories and lessons from adoptive parents, former youth in care, kinship caregivers, and birth families.

A forum for current and former youth in care to share what permanency means to them, and how to ensure their voices are heard in planning.